Amazon Web Services Made Simple: Learn how Amazon EC2, S3, SimpleDB and SQS Web Services enables you to reach business goals faster

Amazon Web Services Made Simple: Learn how Amazon EC2, S3, SimpleDB and SQS Web Services enables you to reach business goals faster
| 2008-11-12 00:00:00 | | 0 | Web


Hundreds of thousands of customers have joined the Amazon Web Services? community in order to build solutions for their businesses. The AWS cloud computing platform provides the flexibility to build your application, your way, regardless of your use case or industry. You can save time, money, and the difficulties of managing your own infrastructure, without compromising on scalability, security, or dependability.

The types of solutions customers have built include Application Hosting, Backup and Storage, Content Delivery, E-Commerce, High Performance Computing, Media Hosting, On-Demand Workforce, Search Engines and Web Hosting.

This book covers AMazon Web Services'comprehensive cloud computing platform and what it means for your business:

Amazon Web Services is more than a collection of infrastructure services. With the same pay as you go pricing, you can save time by incorporating identity, payment, database, messaging, and other services that will give you a head start on delivering for your business. All AWS services are priced on a pay as you go model, with no up front expenses or long-term commitments.

- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2?) - A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Configure an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) and load it into the Amazon EC2 service. Quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change.

- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3?) - A simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve large amounts of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites.

- Amazon SimpleDB? - A web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and provides the core functionality of a database-real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data-without the operational complexity.

- Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS?) - A reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. By using Amazon SQS, developers can simply move data between distributed components of their applications that perform different tasks, without losing messages or requiring each component to be always available.

User review
Such a waste of money
This book's `chapters` remind me of the messages that you can find inside the Chinese fortune cookies.

Cryptic, poorly translated and useless.


An excerpt from page 77:


`GoGrid is very phenomenal with its ability to install and

set up Windows and Linux servers in just a few minutes without

the need for a complex installation process and configuration.`


Whoever wrote this book just went over the internet copying and pasting random stuff that seemed to fit together.

Don't waste your money on this.




User review
I wish I had read the reviews before buying !
This book is indeed very very poorly written, many sentences don't even make any sense, some look like they have been translated by Google Translate and not checked.


Many points are inacurate or even wrong. Some services proposed on top of AWS are presented as being AWS.


Yes it does look like a patchwork of cut and paste from blogs submitted into Google Translate.


Please stop buying this book, and get the OReilly instead.

User review
Don't Buy This Book - Reads Like a Bad Blog,,,,Worse, actually
If you've ever read a blog and thought `huhh,,.?` - that's this book is like for over a hundred pages. I met a guy once at a conference who told me his service is to compile blog entries into `books` for marketing purposes. This is like that kind of book, except without editing.


See the other review by P. Smith for details

User review
Look for another book.
The title is misleading. In fact, the 2nd page of the book has the title:


Amazon Web Services 100 Success Secrets


Each section of the book is mostly 1 page long, some 1.2 pages long.

Clearly someone was paid for 100 very short essays, like:


The Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing


The grammar in the book is terrible. It appears a 1st year college

student has compiled a 1st draft copy and successfully published it

without it being edited.


Somewhere in the book I noticed a section with the phrase:


`,,.using it is.`


and from that I could discern the nationality of the author which makes

reading very tidous when you have to stop and re-read the content and

try to convert it to English.


In my opinion, I got only $5 worth of what I spent on the book, and most

of that is in the entertainment I got thinking about what it would be

like to sit and listen to the author trying to sell me some product in

person without laughing.