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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

You're reading from AWS Tools for PowerShell 6 Administrate, maintain, and automate your infrastructure with ease

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785884078

Length 372 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Ramesh Waghmare

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

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Preface

1. PowerShell Essentials FREE CHAPTER

2. The AWS Overview

3. Installing PowerShell Core and AWS Tools

4. AWS Identity and Access Management

5. AWS Virtual Private Cloud

6. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud

7. AWS Simple Storage Service

8. Elastic Load Balancer

9. Auto Scaling

10. Laying Foundation for RDS Databases

11. DB Instance Administration and Management

12. Working with RDS Read Replicas

13. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

14. AWS CloudFormation

15. AWS CloudWatch

16. AWS Resource Auditing

Chapter 7. AWS Simple Storage Service

AWS Simple StorageService (S3) is an unlimited object store service. Almost every customer that I work with uses S3 for data storage because S3 is really cheap, easy to use, and integrated with various other AWS services. This is a core storage service considering the storage options on AWS. S3 offers various storage classes to optimize the cost. It is a highly available and durable object store that has 99.99% of availability and 99.999999999% of durability. Objects within a bucket in the region are synchronized across all the availability zones for extremely high availability and durability. You can think of a bucket as a local drive on your computer and directories as folders inside the bucket. As buckets are region specific, you should always create an S3 bucket in the region that makes sense to its purpose, such as sharing content to customers or sharing data with EC2 instances in the given region. Objects in S3 could be any blob of data, such as...

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Authors (1)

Ramesh Waghmare

Ramesh Waghmare

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.

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