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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

About the Reviewer

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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 6. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud

AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the first service that AWS launched back in 2006. AWS EC2 is nothing but servers in the cloud known as EC2 instances. When AWS first launched this service, it only offered one type of EC2 instance to the customer, which was m1.small with 1vCPU, 1.7 GiB RAM, and 160 GB of storage. It was supported only on the Linux platform and was offered with on-demand pricing. This is called a first generation type of instances and number 1 in m1.small indicates the generation number. Though it was only one type of instance offered by AWS, it was a very attractive offering for the customer because of the on-demand pricing nature of the computing. This really formed the basis for further innovation in cloud computing for AWS. Considering the humongous success of the EC2 on-demand offering and understanding customer expectations, AWS released various types of instance categories every year. Today, there are a number of instance categories...

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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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