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`Cloud Engineer with his head in the AWS clouds, authored chapters in the PowerShell Conference Book 1 & 2 and currently learning and enjoying Go


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  1. IAM administration in AWS with PowerShell

    Identity and Access Management (IAM) in AWS enables managing users, groups, and their permissions. With IAM, we can create users, remove them, and assign permissions to different services. By using the AWSPowerShell.NetCore module, we are able to perform these tasks from the command line. With reusable code, the administrator can automate and perform these tasks...…


  2. N2WS Backup & Recovery for AWS

    N2WS Backup & Recovery lets you back up data in Amazon Web Services (AWS) automatically as often as required while also providing quick recovery. Data backup and data recovery are important parts of running and protecting your business. Data loss can be detrimental, causing application downtime, requiring you to do work twice, forcing you to...…


  3. AWS AMI discovery with PowerShell

    Using PowerShell is one way of finding available Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). The two main cmdlets Amazon’s AWSPowerShell.NetCore module provides are Get-EC2Image and Get-EC2ImageByName. Get-EC2Image uses the powerful type Amazon.EC2.Model.Filter to allow detailed filtering. By looking at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation, you can see the many filtering options available. In this article, we...…


  4. AWS lifecycle rules on S3 buckets with PowerShell

    One of the features Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides to storage buckets is lifecycle rules. You can use a lifecycle rule to remove or archive objects. I will be looking at creating a lifecycle rule with PowerShell to remove objects from a S3 bucket. Creating a lifecycle rule is a good way to automate...…


  5. Working with AWS credentials using PowerShell

    If you want to automate tasks in AWS with PowerShell, then you’ll need a safe way to store your credentials. To have programmatic access, AWS provides you with an access key and a secret key. I’ll explore how you can keep them secure on your system and how to call them when you come to...…