Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy: Amazon EC2 Made Easy

by Jeff Barr

Host Your Web Site On The Cloud is your step-by-step guide to this revolutionary approach to hosting and managing your web applications.

Cloud computing gives you the tools you need to prepare and cope with a traffic onslaught. You'll have the confidence to withstand a traffic surge without melting your servers or sending you into bankruptcy.

There are a number of ways to use the cloud to host existing applications, build creative new ones, and improve the cost-effectiveness and efficiency or organizations large and small.

You'll learn how to:

gain a thorough understanding of cloud computing master the fundamentals of Amazon Web Services install and configure visual and command line tools store, retrieve, and distribute data quickly and easily build applications that scale manage the monitoring, load balancing, and scaling capabilities of cloud computing As a developer, you need room & flexibility to be innovative. Why waste time worrying about the technical aspects of server capacity? AWS handles security, load balancing, and server resources virtually so you're not restricted to one physical server.

Genres: Web, Programming, Technology, Computer Science

364 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2009

Reviews

[Ryan Parman · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a technical book that was written about software that I designed and wrote (CloudFusion), so I'm a little biased. The content is good at accomplishing what it intends to, although all of the examples were out of date as soon as the book was published because CloudFusion became the official AWS SDK for PHP a week later.

[Tom Panning · Rating 4 out of 5]

It does what it claims: gets you up and running quickly if you're unfamiliar with how EC2 works. You could probably piece the information together from websites and online tutorials, but this book provides it in a nice, integrated package. If your job/project depends on EC2, then this might be a good starting point if you haven't had any previous exposure, but you're going to need something else to take you further. But if you're just curious about EC2 and want to get your hands a little dirty with it, this book ought to help satisfy your curiosity.

[Frank · Rating 2 out of 5]

평이 좋아서 골랐는데 너무 두루뭉술하다.

[Rob · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’d like to recommend this book to anyone who is looking at Amazon Web Services, or would consider themselves a beginner with AWS. I found the writing style to be very easy to read and, while I’m not a PHP developer, the code samples and walk throughs were clear and simple to follow.

AWS is a fast moving target, and even though Jeff is on the team, I’m certain it was difficult to get a book to market that wasn’t completely outdated by the time it hit the shelves, but I think he does a good job of addressing the basics, providing a foundation on which you can build your knowledge, and even slips in a few notes regarding late breaking updates (as of press time) such as EC2 instances being bootable from EBS.

In my mind, this book is similar to the Windows Azure Training Kit in that it gives you most everything you need to get your feed wet, get rolling with the technology, and provides you with the framework by which you can add to your skills.

[Johan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the book a first time and it made a very good impression. I now have a good understanding of the web services offered by Amazon. However, it isn't a theoretical book; it offers a hands-on approach to setting up your own cloud-based Amazon Web Services. I hope to be able to do that in the following months and then write a more extensive review

[Roberto Chavez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good intro with old (2010) example and prices

[Chris Wiegman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good overview of AWS, but little more.

[Abdul Qavi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick read and great Introductory book to AWS

[Colin King · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent introduction to AWS, though the examples are slightly outdated. I converted a handful of the chapters into Node (the book's examples are in PHP), if anyone is interested: https://github.com/colinking/host_you...