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This is a script I wrote to update an AWS IAM policy using the AWS PowerShell toolkit. It is used in conjunction with AWS SES or Simple Email Service to allow easy editing of the list of email addresses that a particular IAM account is allowed to send from.
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This is just a quick guide to show you how to connect to AWS (Amazon Web Services) using the CLI.
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You may want to receive email alerts about certain events within your AWS environment. To do this you will need to create an SNS or Simple Notification Service Subscription which we will go through in this post.
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If you are primarily a Microsoft sysadmin and are also responsible for looking after an AWS environment the AWS Tools for PowerShell will come in useful. In this post we will go through how to connect PowerShell your AWS environment and run a simple command.
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If you use an AWS Storage Gateway as your virtual tape library you may accidentally move one (or more) of your tapes to archive (export in Backup Exec). Once you initiate this process there is no way to stop it in the AWS console! You will just see the Transfer to VTS message and have to wait a very long time. Fortunately you can stop it using the AWS CLI. You will need your gateway arn and your tape arn (you can find these in Backup Exec) and stop the transfer one tape at a time.
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