Making the Cloud, Microservices, and Enterprise IT work!

I don’t normally post code, nor am I normally implementing scripts myself.  But sometimes to learn the ins and outs of a capability, you have to dive in and try it out.  Since I’ve been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) via Windows, I’ve found a remarkable lack of sample scripts for using it, so I’m posing my little project here. For me, with heavy Unix scripting experience in my distant background, using Powershell and the AWS Powershell add-in was a no brainer.  While the syntax of Powershell is significantly different from Unix Bourne shell, the capabilities are practically identical, including piping. Now for the requirements: - I needed to backup to the Cloud for an offsite backup. - The data needed to be encrypted with a client-managed key, but I had neither the tools nor onsite CPU or extra storage for client-site encrypting. - The backed-up data needed to track changes or access. - To show any modifications, the backed-up files needed to man...