AWS CLI Utilities Now for PowerShell

Hello!

Many people know that in addition to the web console, Amazon Web Services has very convenient command line utilities. Now these utilities are also available for PowerShell!

Now administrators of Windows servers on EC2 will be even easier to integrate their scripts with AWS.

What services are supported?

Most! Full list below:

• Amazon cloudfront
• Amazon cloudsearch
• Amazon cloudwatch
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
• Amazon Elastic MapReduce
• Amazon ElastiCache
• Amazon Relational Database Service
• Amazon route 53
• Amazon Simple Email Service
• Amazon Simple Notification Service
• Amazon Simple Queue Service
• Amazon simple storage service
• Amazon virtual private cloud
• Auto scaling
• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• AWS Import / Export
• AWS Identity and Access Management
• AWS Storage Gateway
• Elastic Load Balancing

Where can I download?

The installation file is downloaded from here .

How to get started?

You need to load the utilities into an existing session:

PS C:> import-module "C:\Program Files (x86)\AWS Tools\PowerShell\AWSPowerShell.psd1"

Check whether everything works and display a list of new available commands as follows:

PS C:>  Get-Command -Module AWSPowerShell

For more information on scripting and the use of AWS CLI Tools in PowerShell, you can on this page .