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AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell User Guide
Table of Contents
What are the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell? .............................................................................. 1
How to Use this Guide ............................................................................................................ 1
Getting Set Up .............................................................................................................................. 2
Getting Setup ....................................................................................................................... 2
Prerequisites ................................................................................................................ 2
Download and Install the PowerShell Tools ......................................................................... 3
Enable Script Execution .................................................................................................. 3
Configure a PowerShell Console to Use the Tools ............................................................... 4
Versioning .................................................................................................................... 5
AWS Account and Access Keys ............................................................................................... 6
See Also .............................................................................................................................. 7
Getting Started ............................................................................................................................. 8
AWS Credentials ................................................................................................................... 8
Managing Profiles .......................................................................................................... 9
Specifying Credentials .................................................................................................. 10
Credentials Search Order .............................................................................................. 11
AWS Regions ..................................................................................................................... 11
Cmdlets Discovery and Aliases .............................................................................................. 13
Cmdlet Discovery ........................................................................................................ 13
Cmdlet Naming and Aliases ........................................................................................... 14
Pipelining and $AWSHistory .................................................................................................. 15
$AWSHistory .............................................................................................................. 15
See Also .................................................................................................................... 18
Using the AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell .................................................................................. 19
Amazon EC2 ...................................................................................................................... 20
Create a Key Pair ........................................................................................................ 20
Create a Security Group ............................................................................................... 22
Find an AMI ................................................................................................................ 26
Launch an Instance ...................................................................................................... 28
Amazon S3 ......................................................................................................................... 31
Create an Amazon S3 Bucket, Verify Its Region, and Optionally Remove It ............................ 31
Configure an Amazon S3 Bucket as a Website and Enable Logging ...................................... 32
Upload Objects to an Amazon S3 Bucket ......................................................................... 33
Delete Amazon S3 Objects and Buckets .......................................................................... 34
Upload In-Line Text Content to Amazon S3 ....................................................................... 35
AWS Identity and Access Management ................................................................................... 36
Create New IAM Users and Groups ................................................................................ 36
Set an IAM Policy for an IAM User .................................................................................. 37
Set an Initial Password for an IAM User ........................................................................... 38
Create Security Credentials for an IAM User ..................................................................... 38
Amazon SNS and SQS ......................................................................................................... 39
Create an Amazon SQS queue and get queue ARN .......................................................... 39
Create an Amazon SNS topic ........................................................................................ 39
Give permissions to the SNS topic .................................................................................. 40
Subscribe the queue to the SNS topic ............................................................................. 40
Give permissions ......................................................................................................... 41
Verify results ............................................................................................................... 41
CloudWatch ........................................................................................................................ 42
Publish a Custom Metric to Your CloudWatch Dashboard .................................................... 42
See Also ............................................................................................................................ 43
Document History ....................................................................................................................... 44
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell v1.1.1.0 ............................................................................ 44
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell v1.0.1.0 ............................................................................ 44
AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell v1.0.0.0 ............................................................................ 45
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