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The AWS Tools for PowerShell let developers and administrators manage their AWS services and resources in the PowerShell scripting environment. Now you can manage your AWS resources with the same PowerShell tools you use to manage your Windows, Linux, and MacOS environments.
Instructions for the installation of AWS Tools for PowerShell on Windows, Linux or macOs are available in the User Guide.
The AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell module (AWSPowerShell) is also distributed as part of the AWS Tools for Windows MSI installer.
The AWS Tools for PowerShell lets you perform many of the same actions available in the AWS SDK for .NET. You can use it from the command line for quick tasks, like controlling your Amazon EC2 instances.
The PowerShell scripting language lets you compose scripts to automate your AWS service management. The following example loops through a log directory on an EC2 instance, finds files older than one week, and then archives any non-empty ones to Amazon S3 before deleting the old log file from disk
Lastly, with direct access to AWS services from PowerShell, your management scripts can now take advantage of everything the AWS cloud has to offer.
After you install the AWS Tools for PowerShell, run the following command to get version information and a list of AWS services that are currently supported by the Tools for PowerShell:
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