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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

By : Ramesh Waghmare
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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

By: Ramesh Waghmare

Overview of this book

AWS Tools for PowerShell 6 shows you exactly how to automate all the aspects of AWS. You can take advantage of the amazing power of the cloud, yet add powerful scripts and mechanisms to perform common tasks faster than ever before. This book expands on the Amazon documentation with real-world, useful examples and production-ready scripts to automate all the aspects of your new cloud platform. It will cover topics such as managing Windows with PowerShell, setting up security services, administering database services, and deploying and managing networking. You will also explore advanced topics such as PowerShell authoring techniques, and configuring and managing storage and content delivery. By the end of this book, you will be able to use Amazon Web Services to automate and manage Windows servers. You will also have gained a good understanding of automating the AWS infrastructure using simple coding.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Creating Classic Load Balancer

To find all the related cmdlets for working with Classic Load Balancer, you can use the following command:

PS C:\> Get-Command *ELB* |Where-Object {$_.Name -NotLike "*ELB2*"}

This will list all the cmdlets for Classic Load Balancer.

Note that if you run the previous cmdlet without a filter, you will notice that there are cmdlets with ELB2 in them. Any cmdlet with ELB2 in it is meant for Application Load Balancer.

To get a list of existing CLBs, you run the following command:

PS C:\> Get-ELBLoadBalancer

To see the Classic Load Balancer limits on the account, you can use the following cmdlet. If a limit needs to be lifted, you have to contact AWS:

PS C:\> Get-ELBAccountLimit

Let's plan to create a Classic Load Balancer. But before we create it, we need to know the subnet details and its availability zones. We also need to...