AWS PowerShell Automation – Compute and EC2 Course
 
Course Description
AWS PowerShell Automation – Compute and EC2 is a practical, hands-on training program designed to teach cloud engineers, system administrators, and DevOps professionals how to automate AWS compute operations using PowerShell. This course focuses on leveraging the AWS Tools for PowerShell to provision, configure, monitor, and manage Amazon EC2 instances and related compute resources efficiently and repeatably.
 
You’ll learn how to write PowerShell scripts that interact with AWS APIs, automate infrastructure tasks, manage instance lifecycles, create and configure AMIs, handle storage and networking settings, apply security best practices, and integrate automation into operational workflows. The course also covers tagging strategies, bulk operations, monitoring, error handling, and orchestration patterns used in large-scale environments.
 
With real-world examples and guided exercises, this course equips you with the automation skills needed to streamline compute operations and reduce manual intervention across your AWS environments.
 
What You’ll Learn
Installing and configuring AWS Tools for PowerShell
Authenticating securely with IAM roles, access keys, and profiles
Automating EC2 provisioning, instance management, and configuration
Creating, managing, and deploying custom AMIs
Working with EBS volumes, snapshots, and storage automation
Managing security groups, key pairs, networking, and tagging
Automating instance scaling, lifecycle actions, and maintenance workflows
Monitoring EC2 instances and generating operational reports
Error handling, scripting best practices, and reusable automation patterns
 
Who This Course Is For
System administrators managing AWS compute resources
DevOps and automation engineers
Cloud engineers looking to enhance scripting workflows
IT professionals seeking to replace manual EC2 operations with automation
Anyone building PowerShell-based automation for AWS environments