AWS Tools for PowerShell 6: Administrate, maintain, and automate your infrastructure with ease

Leverage the power of PowerShell to bring the best out of your AWS infrastructure

About This Book

• A collection of real-world-tested Powershell scripts that can be used to manage your Windows server efficiently
• Follow step-by-step processes to solve your problems with Windows servers using AWS tools
• Design examples that work in the Amazon free usage tier, which lets you run the Windows platform on cloud

Who This Book Is For

This book will be useful for (but not limited to) Windows System administrators, cloud engineers, architects, DevOps engineers, and all those who want to accomplish tasks on the AWS Public Cloud using PowerShell.

What You Will Learn

• Install the AWS Tools for PowerShell 6
• Understand key services provided by Amazon Web services (AWS)
• Understand the Virtual Private Cloud
• Use PowerShell 6 for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Use PowerShell 6 for AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Use PowerShell 6 for AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Use PowerShell 6 for AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Build fault-tolerant and highly-available applications using PowerShell 6

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This step-by-step guide starts with simple examples then expands to full-blown administrative tasks leading to the efficient management of Windows servers. Each topic covers a section related to Amazon Web Services products, and the examples are built on one another to deliver a comprehensive library of scripts for administrators.

Ramesh Waghmare is a technology evangelist who has been in the IT industry for over 20 years and has extensively worked in ICT operations, software development, deployment, and critical systems production support. Throughout his IT career, he has had the opportunity to work in roles such as senior developer, senior database administrator, manager, and architect, which have helped him to build expertise in various IT solutions and implementations from the business perspective and its simplicity to use.

He is a strategic thinker, focusing always on quality delivery to the client ensuring satisfaction at both ends. He has experience of leading and managing a team of technical and non-technical team members. He is a natural leader who inspires, is curious, and is very self-aware. He has a strategic mindset with practical orientation that enables team growth and continuous improvement with a positive outlook. He has strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with incredible attention to detail. He has successfully implemented solutions involving cross-functional/cross-geography teams.

He is a sound expert in database technologies such as Oracle, MYSQL, and SQL Server, and in operating systems such as Linux, UNIX, and Windows. In addition, he has a great understanding of open source databases. He is also a certified AWS solution architect and has helped a number of clients to move from their isolated data centers to the public/private cloud.

He has also published a Kindle version of the book called AWS for Oracle DBA and Architect.

Academically, he has completed his MBA in information system, backed by an engineering degree in computer science. He is also a certified AWS solution architect and DevOps engineer at a professional level, holding other several key industry standard certifications.