1. Microsoft Automation on AWS
David O’Brien
, Senior DevOps Engineer
Versent
Presenter #2
Blog, address, title
Company

2. David O’Brien Presenter Name 2 @david_obrien Twitter Handle
MVP for Cloud and Datacentre Management
Awards, accomplishments, etc.
@davidobrien1985 (github)
Experience
Automation, aviation, travel
Favorite something; e.g., food

3. Agenda
Intro to AWS
Getting the AWS PowerShell module
What can we automate?
How can we use PowerShell on AWS

4. Intro to AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is a cloud-focused service provider with a very pure vision of highly automated, cost-effective IT capabilities, delivered in a flexible, on-demand manner.
over 10 times more cloud IaaS compute capacity in use than the aggregate total of the other 14 providers
AWS leader of Gartner MQ for IaaS

5. Getting the AWS PowerShell module
PowerShell PackageManagement
Install-Module -Name AWSPowerShell
Download from AWS
Get-AWSPowerShellVersion -ListServiceVersionInfo - Verbose

6. Non-representative study:
What can we automate?
Azure has 756
1666 PowerShell cmdlets
Non-representative study:
Most commonly automated tasks on AWS
Creating, editing, launching VPCs
Executing CloudFormation
Demos

8. Cloudformation Equivalent to Azure Resource Manager
JSON describing environment
Can execute code on instances
userdata
<powershell>$script</powershell>
I recommend using PowerShell DSC
AWS Quickstart templates
VPC with Domain Controllers
Pull Server setup

10. David O’Brien Presenter Name 2 @david_obrien Twitter Handle
MVP for Cloud and Datacentre Management
Awards, accomplishments, etc.
@davidobrien1985 (github)
Experience
Automation, aviation, travel
Favorite something; e.g., food

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