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

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Contents at a Glance
3. Contents
4. About the Author
5. About the Technical Reviewers
6. Acknowledgments
7. Introduction
8. CHAPTER 1: AWS Architecture Overview
   1. Introduction
   2. What Is Cloud Computing?
   3. Regions
   4. Availability Zones
   5. Services
   6. Summary
9. CHAPTER 2: Getting Started
   1. Creating an AWS Account
   2. Creating a User Account
   3. Configuring PowerShell
   4. Specifying Credentials and Region
   5. Setting Defaults
   6. Persisting Defaults
   7. Using Stored Credentials
   8. Using Key Pairs
   9. Using IAM Roles
   10. Summary
10. CHAPTER 3: Basic Instance Management
    1. Creating Instances
    2. Connecting to an Instance
    3. Managing the Instance Life Cycle
    4. Listing Instances and Metadata
    5. Using the Metadata URL
    6. Using User Data
    7. Working with Tags
    8. Working with Filters
    9. Summary
11. CHAPTER 4: Elastic Block Storage
    1. Managing Volumes at Launch
    2. Adding a Volume to a Running Instance
    3. Managing Quality of Service
    4. Working with Snapshots
    5. Managing Public Snapshots
    6. Summary
12. CHAPTER 5: Virtual Private Cloud
    1. Creating a VPC
    2. Creating a Subnet
    3. Creating an Internet Gateway
    4. Managing Route Tables
    5. Managing Network ACLs
    6. Managing DHCP
    7. Summary
13. CHAPTER 6: Advanced Instance Management
    1. Managing Security Groups
    2. Launching Instances into a VPC
    3. Managing Elastic IP Addresses
    4. Managing Private IPs
    5. Managing Elastic Network Interfaces
    6. Summary
14. CHAPTER 7: Amazon Machine Images
    1. Working with Scripted Builds and Prepared Images
    2. Listing AMIs
    3. Introducing the EC2Config Service
    4. Preparing an AMI Using EC2Config
    5. Editing the SysPrep Answer File
    6. Creating an AMI
    7. Sharing an AMI
    8. Summary
15. CHAPTER 8: Monitoring and High Availability
    1. Architecting for High Availability
    2. Managing Elastic Load Balancers
    3. Monitoring with CloudWatch
    4. Using Auto Scaling
    5. Using Route 53
    6. Summary
16. CHAPTER 9: Relational Database Service
    1. RDS Architecture
    2. Managing RDS Instances
    3. Configuring a Database Engine
    4. Working with Snapshots
    5. Using Point-in-Time Restores
    6. Working with Tags, Events, and Logs
    7. Multi-AZ Instances
    8. Read Replicas
    9. Summary
17. CHAPTER 10: Simple Storage Service
    1. Managing Buckets
    2. Managing Objects
    3. Managing Folders
    4. Managing Public Access
    5. Managing Versions
    6. Miscellaneous S3 Options
    7. Summary
18. CHAPTER 11: Identity and Access Management
    1. Managing Users
    2. Managing Groups
    3. Managing Policies
    4. Managing Roles
    5. Miscellaneous IAM Commands
    6. Summary
19. APPENDIX A: Glossary of Terms
20. APPENDIX B: Metadata URL Structure
21. APPENDIX C: List of Filters by EC2 Command
    1. Get-EC2Address
    2. Get-EC2AvailabilityZone
    3. Get-EC2BundleTask
    4. Get-EC2CustomerGateway
    5. Get-EC2DhcpOption
    6. Get-EC2Image
    7. Get-EC2Instance
    8. Get-EC2InstanceStatus
    9. Get-EC2InternetGateway
    10. Get-EC2KeyPair
    11. Get-EC2NetworkAcl
    12. Get-EC2NetworkInterface
    13. Get-EC2PlacementGroup
    14. Get-EC2Region
    15. Get-EC2ReservedInstance
    16. Get-EC2ReservedInstancesListing
    17. Get-EC2ReservedInstancesOffering
    18. Get-EC2RouteTable
    19. Get-EC2SecurityGroup
    20. Get-EC2Snapshot
    21. Get-EC2SpotInstanceRequest
    22. Get-EC2SpotPriceHistory
    23. Get-EC2Subnet
    24. Get-EC2Tag
    25. Get-EC2Volume
    26. Get-EC2VolumeStatus
    27. Get-EC2Vpc
    28. Get-EC2VpnConnection
    29. Get-EC2VpnGateway
22. APPENDIX D: List of API Methods by Command
    1. AWS Support
    2. Auto Scaling
    3. CloudFront
    4. CloudSearch
    5. CloudWatch
    6. Direct Connect
    7. Data Pipeline
    8. Elastic Beanstalk
    9. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    10. ElastiCache
    11. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
    12. Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
    13. Elastic Transcoder
    14. Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    15. Import/Export
    16. OpsWorks
    17. Route 53
    18. Relational Database Service (RDS)
    19. Redshift
    20. Simple Storage Service (S3)
    21. Simple Email Service (SES)
    22. Storage Gateway (SG)
    23. Simple Notification Service (SNS)
    24. Simple Queue Service (SQS)
    25. Secure Token Service (STS)
23. APPENDIX E: CloudWatch Metrics and Dimensions
    1. Auto Scaling
    2. Billing
    3. Elastic Block Storage
    4. Elastic Compute Cloud
    5. Elastic Load Balancer
    6. Relational Database Service
24. APPENDIX F: SQL Server RDS Parameters
25. Index