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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 Application Load Balancer

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

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

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

To get a list of existing Application Load Balancers, run the following command:

PS C:\> Get-ELB2LoadBalancer

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

PS C:\> Get-ELB2AccountLimit

When you work with Application Load Balancer, you do not add target EC2 instances directly on the ALB, as we did...