Pro Powershell for Amazon Web Services: DevOps for the AWS Cloud

✍ Scribed by Brian Beach (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud service. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few years ago. Tasks that traditionally took weeks of work, costing thousands of dollars, can be completed in minutes for a fraction of a penny.

This book is a resource for using Microsoft's powerful scripting language, PowerShell, to create, host, manage, and administer workloads using a service widely recognized as the industry leader in cloud computing. Inside, find scripts to create and manage virtual machines, provision storage, configure networks with agility, and more--all using your preferred Windows scripting language.

Use your PowerShell knowledge to harness the power of Amazon EC2 today!

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
AWS Architecture Overview....Pages 1-6
Getting Started....Pages 7-26
Basic Instance Management....Pages 27-48
Elastic Block Storage....Pages 49-66
Virtual Private Cloud....Pages 67-88
Advanced Instance Management....Pages 89-114
Amazon Machine Images....Pages 115-134
Monitoring and High Availability....Pages 135-154
Relational Database Service....Pages 155-178
Simple Storage Service....Pages 179-192
Identity and Access Management....Pages 193-214
Glossary of Terms....Pages 215-218
Metadata URL Structure....Pages 219-222
List of Filters by EC2 Command....Pages 223-246
List of API Methods by Command....Pages 247-272
CloudWatch Metrics and Dimensions....Pages 273-278
SQL Server RDS Parameters....Pages 279-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-290

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general