Version 5 (V5) of the Amazon Tools for PowerShell has been released\!

For information about breaking changes and migrating your applications, see the [migration topic](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/powershell/v5/userguide/migrating-v5.html).

 [https://docs.amazonaws.cn/powershell/v5/userguide/migrating-v5.html](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/powershell/v5/userguide/migrating-v5.html)

# Amazon EC2 and Tools for Windows PowerShell
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You can perform common tasks related to Amazon EC2 using the Amazon Tools for PowerShell.

The example commands shown here assume that you have set default credentials and a default region for your PowerShell session. Therefore, we don't include credentials or region when we invoke the cmdlets. For more information, see [Authenticating with Amazon](creds-idc.md) and [Amazon Region](pstools-installing-specifying-region.md).

**Topics**
+ [Create a Key Pair](pstools-ec2-keypairs.md)
+ [Create a Security Group](pstools-ec2-sg.md)
+ [Find an AMI](pstools-ec2-get-amis.md)
+ [Launch an Instance](pstools-ec2-launch.md)