Prerequisites for AWS Tools

In order to use AWS Tools for PowerShell, you need to have the minimum configuration running:

• Microsoft Windows XP or higher versions
• Windows PowerShell 2.0 or higher versions (PowerShell 5.1 or later for Tools for PowerShell Core)

On Linux servers, if you install PowerShell using yum, the dependency modules will be installed automatically. With the rpm type install, you may need to install a couple of individual modules before you attempt to install PowerShell on Linux. Likewise, there are some dependencies for each platform, which can be seen as part of the documentation. I encourage you to refer to a platform-specific documentation. In this book, I will touch base on Linux and Windows related prerequisites only. On Red Hat, the PowerShell install using the yum installer will install the modules libunwind and uuid.