The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Extensions for AWS Tools for PowerShell provide a user-friendly interface on top of the core AWS Tools for PowerShell experience.

One of the predominant features of this PowerShell module is the dynamic Intellisense that's based on the resources provisioned in your AWS account. Intellisense results are governed by the IAM credentials profile that is currently active.

The PowerShell environment provides the ability to modify objects by binding custom properties and methods to them. The feature providing this capability is known as the PowerShell Adaptive Type System (ATS). The Add-Member command can be used to add new properties and methods to individual objects. However, if you want to bind a custom property or method to all objects that share a common type, then you can use the Update-TypeData command.

The Update-TypeData command allows you to specify an XML document (*.types.ps1xml) containing the pre-defined type adaptations, or you can simply specify the new members in-line with the command.

This module provides type adaptations for the following resources:

To install this module, simply clone the repository locally, and then import the .psd1 file. We are currently looking into publishing this module to the PowerShell Gallery for ease of distribution.

git clone https://github.com/awslabs/aws-powershell-extensions
Import-Module -Name ./aws-powershell-extensions/AWSPowerShell.Extensions.psd1

1. Set your default AWS Region, using the Set-DefaultAWSRegion command.
2. Start calling commands in the AWS Tools for PowerShell, as usual.

Intellisense integrates with your typical usage of the AWS PowerShell module.

Type Adapters add extra properties and methods to various .NET object types.

To try out the type adapters for EC2 instances, first create an .aws, try out the following command and examine the new properties that are attached to the EC2 instance objects.

(Get-EC2Instance).Instances | Get-Member

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