Amazon Web Services Made Simple: Learn How Amazon EC2, S3, SimpleDB and SQS Web Services Enables You to Reach Business Goals Faster [Paperback]

Donald Robinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 12, 2008

Addresses the top 100 consultancy & education forum questions, with tips & success factors to evaluate, implement & harness Amazon Web Services enterprise Cloud Computing platform.

Product Details

• Paperback: 186 pages
• Publisher: Emereo Publishing (November 12, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1921573066
• ISBN-13: 978-1921573064
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #820,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Look for another book., December 10, 2008

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P. Smith - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazon Web Services Made Simple: Learn How Amazon EC2, S3, SimpleDB and SQS Web Services Enables You to Reach Business Goals Faster (Paperback)

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.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I wish I had read the reviews before buying !, April 20, 2009

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Patrice - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amazon Web Services Made Simple: Learn How Amazon EC2, S3, SimpleDB and SQS Web Services Enables You to Reach Business Goals Faster (Paperback)

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Buy This Book - Reads Like a Bad Blog....Worse, actually, February 6, 2009

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BetterPath - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Amazon Web Services Made Simple: Learn How Amazon EC2, S3, SimpleDB and SQS Web Services Enables You to Reach Business Goals Faster (Paperback)

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