SqlServer Begin's

Today I had to programitacally install a .msi and .exe at the start up of an EC2 instance. By default all them code that needs to be executed during a start up is added to the user data of the EC2 instance. Bellow was the code used to install the msi and exe start-process c:\setup\<>.msi /gn -wait However executing the exe required some effort as it needed special switchers start-process c:\setup\psqlodbc-setup.exe /install /quiet /norestart  -wait -passthorugh found the extra switcher doing this

If  you are looking for the endpoint for a RDS instnace and wondered where it had gone. You should find it in the Endpoint property in Get-rdsdbinstance. I found the Get-rdsdbinstance a bit misleading , cause i expected the a expandable property to be {} and found a just text. Get-RDSDBInstance - Region $ region | Where - Object { $ _ .Engine -eq 'Mysql' }  | Select-Object - ExpandProperty Endpoint | select Address