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Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services

DevOps for the AWS Cloud

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Brian Beach
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  • CIOs everywhere are pushing their staff to move to the cloud, but there are few books on the market to help.
  • This book focuses on moving Microsoft Windows workloads to the cloud using technologies familiar to enterprise Microsoft-based professionals.

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. AWS Architecture Overview

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 1-6

  3. Getting Started

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 7-26

  4. Basic Instance Management

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 27-48

  5. Elastic Block Storage

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 49-66

  6. Virtual Private Cloud

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 67-88

  7. Advanced Instance Management

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 89-114

  8. Amazon Machine Images

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 115-134

  9. Monitoring and High Availability

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 135-154

  10. Relational Database Service

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 155-178

  11. Simple Storage Service

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 179-192

  12. Identity and Access Management

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 193-214

  13. Glossary of Terms

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 215-218

  14. Metadata URL Structure

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 219-222

  15. List of Filters by EC2 Command

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 223-246

  16. List of API Methods by Command

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 247-272

  17. CloudWatch Metrics and Dimensions

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 273-278

  18. SQL Server RDS Parameters

    • Brian Beach
    Pages 279-284

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 285-290
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About this book

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!

About the author

Brian Beach is an enterprise architect with over 15 yearsof experience in software engineering and information technology management.Brian is a certified Amazon Certified Solution Architect and Microsoft CertifiedSolution Developer. He holds a BS inComputer Engineering from NYU Poly, an MBA from Rutgers Business Schools, andis a member of American Mensa. Brian is anadvocate for Cloud Computing on the AWS platform and currently manages a teamof cloud engineers at a big four accounting firm.

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