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May 12, 2010
Bob S.
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In Short: If you're looking for a book that explains how the AWS EC2 & S3 services can be used to implement transactional web applications on the IaaS model, while accommodating enterprise architectural needs, such as security, disaster recovery, and scalability, this is a good book for you.
This book provides a good introduction to cloud computing, but it focusses on a specific usage paradigm. As such the title is a little misleading; instead of providing a variety of cloud applicati More...
This book provides a good introduction to cloud computing, but it focusses on a specific usage paradigm. As such the title is a little misleading; instead of providing a variety of cloud applicati More...
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Sep 18, 2009
Allisonperkel
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Mr Reese has taken on a loaded topic and in less 200 pages he succinctly gets his major points across on that most nebulous term; Cloud Computing.
Starting in the first chapter, Mr Reese begins with his definition of cloud:
1) it must be accessible from a web browser or web service api (non proprietary)
2) 0 capital expenditure to start
3) you pay for only what you use
These simple statements provide the baseline for the rest of the book.
From he More...
Starting in the first chapter, Mr Reese begins with his definition of cloud:
1) it must be accessible from a web browser or web service api (non proprietary)
2) 0 capital expenditure to start
3) you pay for only what you use
These simple statements provide the baseline for the rest of the book.
From he More...
Jan 19, 2012
Robert
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I picked up this book really looking forward to the premise. Sadly the book was a let down on a number of fronts. Specifically:
The focus on Amazon AWS really detracted from general discussion of the cloud. Surely the edit could have rounded out the common refrain of you could do this with S3 but I'm not sure about anyone else.
There are a large number of missing diagrams in my print.
The author tends to lay out the flaws of traditional infrastructure followed by cloud issues with More...
The focus on Amazon AWS really detracted from general discussion of the cloud. Surely the edit could have rounded out the common refrain of you could do this with S3 but I'm not sure about anyone else.
There are a large number of missing diagrams in my print.
The author tends to lay out the flaws of traditional infrastructure followed by cloud issues with More...
Mar 01, 2011
Simon
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This book is more of an Amazon EC2 and S3 user manual than covering Cloud Application Architecture in general.
Having said that I did find that it still did have some good content although in many areas it was very high level. Some diagrams were also missing from my copy.
There was a good Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services overview. Cloud ROI, Monitoring & Management, and reiteration that Laws need to be considered were also covered, as were development implications, and More...
Having said that I did find that it still did have some good content although in many areas it was very high level. Some diagrams were also missing from my copy.
There was a good Cloud Computing and Amazon Web Services overview. Cloud ROI, Monitoring & Management, and reiteration that Laws need to be considered were also covered, as were development implications, and More...
Mar 15, 2011
Adam
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Great book covering perhaps every aspect of IaaS part of cloud computing. Although it is now 2 years old (quite a long time in IT), it still has much to offer — economic aspect (which I'm missing in most books about cloud computing), security, design, scalability etc. I found this particular book the most informative and practice oriented from all books I read about cloud computing.
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Jul 05, 2010
Alex
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Good overview of Amazon EC2 and related services, but no more. Text isn't hard to read - author constantly switching from low-level detail to high-level philosophy of cloud, and back. This book could be easily replaced with several blog posts on common cloud architecture + amazon's documentation.
Aug 22, 2010
Edmond
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Useful book to learn about Amazon EC2 and Cloud computing, but then, parts of it is already outdated in this ever changing world.
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