Release: AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell 1.0.0

Easy command-line access to AWS

The AWS Tools for Windows 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, listing Amazon EC2 AMIs or uploading files to Amazon S3:

PS C:\> Start-EC2Instances -InstanceId i-10a64379
PS C:\> Get-EC2Image -Owner self
PS C:\> Write-S3Object -BucketName myBucket -Key myFileKey -File C:\MyFile.txt
				

Uploading to and downloading from Amazon S3 make use of multi-part transfers automatically. You can also transmit entire folder hierarchies:

PS C:\> Read-S3Object -BucketName myBucket -KeyPrefix Key/To/MyFiles -Folder C:\PutFilesHere
				

Automate AWS service management using script composition

The Windows PowerShell scripting language lets you compose scripts to automate your AWS service management. The following example loops through a log directory on an Amazon 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.

foreach ($i in Get-ChildItem C:\Logs)
{
    if ($i.CreationTime -lt ($(Get-Date).AddDays(-7)))
    {
        if ($i.Length -gt 0)
        {
            Write-S3Object -BucketName mylogbucket -Key Logs/$i -File $i.FullName
        }
        Remove-Item $i.FullName
    }
}