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AWS Development Essentials
Design and build flexible, highly scalable, and cost-effective applications using Amazon Web ServicesAbout This BookIntegrate and use AWS services in an applicationReduce the development time and billing cost using the AWS billing and management consoleThis is a fast-paced tutorial that will cover application deployment using various tools along with best practices for working with AWS servicesWho This Book Is ForThis book is intended for expert programmers and architects who want to learn how to migrate the existing infrastructure to AWS Cloud and start using AWS services in all application tiers. Basic knowledge of Java and competence in cloud computing will be needed to follow the examples in this book.
What You Will LearnSet up the AWS plugin and perform AWS operations in Eclipse IDEInstall, configure, and perform AWS operations using AWS SDKConfigure Amazon Relational Database Service and use it in your application backendDeploy and manage web applications using Amazon Elastic BeanstalkDesign and send notifications to multiple devices and endpointsCreate and use AWS services in an isolated networkIntegrate all AWS services in a web applicationIn DetailThis book is a fast-paced guide to help you with architecture systems and solve technical problems using the latest cloud computing technologies.
Starting with the introduction to AWS, you will learn about identifying key AWS storage options, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3 bucket creation, and sample code and libraries. You will learn about computing and networking services using Amazon EBS and EC2 instances. You will efficiently be able to manage services and databases using DynamoDB and understand the key aspects of Amazon RDS. You will also learn about deployment and maintenance using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms, Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM), and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Finally, you will explore service object models and the baseline concept of SNS and SQS, and then build an app using these new skills. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively manage your application on AWS by using the AWS SDKs and APIs, as well as the AWS Management Console.
What You Will LearnSet up the AWS plugin and perform AWS operations in Eclipse IDEInstall, configure, and perform AWS operations using AWS SDKConfigure Amazon Relational Database Service and use it in your application backendDeploy and manage web applications using Amazon Elastic BeanstalkDesign and send notifications to multiple devices and endpointsCreate and use AWS services in an isolated networkIntegrate all AWS services in a web applicationIn DetailThis book is a fast-paced guide to help you with architecture systems and solve technical problems using the latest cloud computing technologies.
Starting with the introduction to AWS, you will learn about identifying key AWS storage options, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3 bucket creation, and sample code and libraries. You will learn about computing and networking services using Amazon EBS and EC2 instances. You will efficiently be able to manage services and databases using DynamoDB and understand the key aspects of Amazon RDS. You will also learn about deployment and maintenance using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms, Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM), and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Finally, you will explore service object models and the baseline concept of SNS and SQS, and then build an app using these new skills. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively manage your application on AWS by using the AWS SDKs and APIs, as well as the AWS Management Console.
228 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 26, 2014
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March 22, 2015
The AWS docs themselves are better edited and more informative than this book. It is not an exaggeration to say your time would better spent simply trying AWS first-hand rather than spending time with this book.
The book often walks through screenshots of dialogs, including uninformative SDK installations, and simply states what the dialogs already say. The book is (entirely?) devoid of actual teaching and simply lists when to click through dialogs and fill out forms without ever explaining why you're using the values you're using, when you wouldn't want to use such values, or what the generalized purpose of what you're doing is.
Here's an example from the book's last chapter on deploying to Beanstalk: "A few more windows will pop up, in which we don't do anything, except clicking on the Next button. If the AWS plugin is properly configured, then this application will be deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk." What information does this provide that simply trying it yourself wouldn't have provided? This characterizes much of the feel of book's content.
The editing is also quite poor. An example from chapter 5: "One of the characteristics that I was concerned about to derive work at AWS was my intellect that the cloud can be a pleasant and logical residence where we can figure out security solutions; now, two of my beloved notions, positioning security in the cloud and quickening the espousal of multifactor authentication." That's not a sentence and certainly doesn't make any sense.
This book will have me second-guessing making any future purchases from Packt Publishing.
The book often walks through screenshots of dialogs, including uninformative SDK installations, and simply states what the dialogs already say. The book is (entirely?) devoid of actual teaching and simply lists when to click through dialogs and fill out forms without ever explaining why you're using the values you're using, when you wouldn't want to use such values, or what the generalized purpose of what you're doing is.
Here's an example from the book's last chapter on deploying to Beanstalk: "A few more windows will pop up, in which we don't do anything, except clicking on the Next button. If the AWS plugin is properly configured, then this application will be deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk." What information does this provide that simply trying it yourself wouldn't have provided? This characterizes much of the feel of book's content.
The editing is also quite poor. An example from chapter 5: "One of the characteristics that I was concerned about to derive work at AWS was my intellect that the cloud can be a pleasant and logical residence where we can figure out security solutions; now, two of my beloved notions, positioning security in the cloud and quickening the espousal of multifactor authentication." That's not a sentence and certainly doesn't make any sense.
This book will have me second-guessing making any future purchases from Packt Publishing.
April 13, 2015
This book reads so poorly that it seems that it was run through Google Translate from the author's native language without editing by a native English speaker. Don't waste your time.
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