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Helper Powershell functions to interact with the Route53 Amazon Web Service

Install as a powershell module

To Install this as a powershell module, just create a folder under the "$PROFILE.AllUsersAllHosts\modules" folder and drop the Route53Tools.psm1 script there:

# Create modules folder if required
$modulesfolder = Split-Path($PROFILE.AllUsersAllHosts)
$modulesfolder = $modulesfolder + "\modules"
mkdir -force $modulesFolder

# Create a folder for this powershell module
mkdir -force "$modulesFolder\Route53Tools"
Copy-Item -Force ".\Route53Tools.psm1" "$modulesFolder\Route53Tools"

Load Route53 helper functions into powershell session

Import-Module Route53Tools # Import module in to current session

Setup Your AWS Credentials

[Route53Helper.Authentication]::AwsAccessKeyId = "<AWS Access Key ID>"
[Route53Helper.Authentication]::AwsSecretAccessKey = "<AWS Secret Access Key>"

List Hosted Zones

Show-HostedZones

Delete a Hosted Zone

Remove-HostedZone -hostedZoneId "<hosted zone id>"

Show Resource Records

Show-ResourceRecords -hostedZoneId "<hosted zone id>"

Create an A Record

New-ARecord -comment "Testing" -domainName "mail.cloudoman.com" -hostedZoneId "<hosted zone id>" -ttl 10 -type "A" -value "10.1.1.1"

Delete an A Record

Remove-ARecord -comment "Testing" -domainName "mail.cloudoman.com" -hostedZoneId "<hosted zone id>" -ttl 10 -type "A" -value "10.1.1.1"