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The best book written on how to get started in the Amazon Cloud, September 30, 2010
This review is from: Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy: Amazon EC2 Made Easy (Paperback)
My teams in two companies have now built solutions that used AWS and the Amazon Cloud Solution including systems that serve users with millions of page-views and mobile solutions serving the US, Mexico, China, Taiwan, Korea, ....
I WISH I HAD HAD THIS BOOK FOR THE TEAM!
Amazon's documentation and support is excellent, but Jeff Barr has put it all together in a precise, complete, and well documented roadmap.
Have you been intimidated by cloud computing and hosting your solution in the cloud? Don't be. Jeff leads you through the process step by step.
The previous review is right on - you """don't (need) to be a VC funded Silicon Valley start-up, or a Top 1000 website to take advantage of the power, flexibility and cost savings found in cloud computing."""
Although not just anybody can do it (such as my 84 year old mother) Jeff has done an outstanding job making it easy. If you are a reasonably web-savy mid-level PHP familiar programmer (my mother is not) you'll be up and running building highly scalable cloud-based solutions in hours. It's easier than fixing pizza....
Oh -- and if you have multiple programmers running around and want to keep a copy of the book for yourself - buy more than one copy. Someone already borrowed mine which means it will be MIA for at least a month.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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Finally! Clear & Simple Explanation of Moving to Cloud Web Hosting, September 27, 2010
This review is from: Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy: Amazon EC2 Made Easy (Paperback)
This is the "official" Amazon EC2 and S3 book, and it does a fantastic job of covering the basics.
If you've been intimidated by cloud computing and hosting websites on the cloud, fear no longer! This book will walk you through everything you need to know to transition from dedicated servers or shared hosting accounts and into supper affordable cloud hosting where you can rent servers for just pennies per hour and instantly go from 1 server to 20 and then back to 1 as dictated by traffic.
If you're still leasing servers for hundreds of dollars a month each, if commissioning a new server takes days rather than minutes, if you pay through the nose for bandwidth, if your site or web applications can't handle sudden traffic spikes then this book is for you. You don't to be a VC funded Silicon Valley start-up, or a Top 1000 website to take advantage of the power, flexibility and cost savings found in cloud computing. Anybody can do it.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Very Good Book on AWS, November 14, 2010
This review is from: Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy: Amazon EC2 Made Easy (Paperback)
I found this book to be a very good introduction into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Computing platform. I'll admit to be being a little bit overwhelmed by AWS' offerings; i.e., Cloudfront, S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SNS, SQS, etc. This book pretty much clears everything up about AWS in understandable and clear language. It gave me plenty of ideas of how and what I could accomplish in using AWS; i.e., a website, an application platform, private computing resources, and more...
And thanks to Amazon's (recently added) generous 'free tier', my EC2 micro instance is now up and running on AWS! So far, I have not encountered any charges, although this is with light usage on my part. With free utility computing resources at the AWS' free tier, you can actually try out most of the exercises in the book with no (or little) charge.
The CloudFusion exercises as used in the book are slightly 'outdated'; it is now the 'official' AWS SDK and is renamed as such. So, some slight changes may be needed in the code. (Is there an errata online for this book?) This book does assume some intermediate PHP knowledge. There is an overview on cloud computing itself and an overview on Amazon's array of cloud computing services, which I found it to be very useful.
Overall, a 5-star book.
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