Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services

© Brian Beach, Steven Armentrout, Rodney Bozo, Emmanuel Tsouris 2019

B. Beach et al.Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Serviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4850-8_2

2. Getting Started

Brian Beach¹ , Steven Armentrout², Rodney Bozo³ and Emmanuel Tsouris⁴

(1)

Raleigh, NC, USA

(2)

Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA

(3)

Sterling, VA, USA

(4)

North Bend, WA, USA

 

In the previous chapter, we described cloud computing and then discussed the benefits of scripting your AWS configuration. Before we get started writing these scripts, we need to create an AWS account and prepare our PowerShell environment.

We will begin by creating a new AWS account and credentials for PowerShell. Then we will install the AWS Toolkit and configure a few default values. Although this might not ...