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Programming Amazon EC2 [Kindle Edition]

Jurg van Vliet (Author), Flavia Paganelli (Author)
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If you plan to use Amazon Web Services to run applications in the cloud, the end-to-end approach in this book will save you needless trial and error. You'll find practical guidelines for designing and building applications with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and a host of supporting AWS tools, with a focus on critical issues such as load balancing, monitoring, and automation.

How do you move an existing application to AWS, or design your application so that it scales effectively? How much storage will you require? Programming Amazon EC2 not only helps you get started, it will also keep you going once you're successfully positioned in the cloud. This book is a must-read for application architects, developers, and administrators.

  • Determine your application's lifecycle and identify the AWS tools you need
  • Learn how to build and run your application as part of the development process
  • Migrate simple web applications to the cloud with EC2, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and CloudFront content delivery
  • Meet traffic demand with EC2's Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
  • Decouple your application using Simple Queue Service, Simple Notification Service, and other tools
  • Use the right tools to minimize downtime, improve uptime, and manage your decoupled system

"Jurg and Flavia have done a great job in this book building a practical guide on how to build real systems using AWS."

--Werner Vogels, VP & CTO at Amazon.com

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 2563 KB
  • Print Length: 185 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1449393683
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (11 Feb 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004V9MR5M
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #165,244 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Definitely useful, but not as much as I would have liked 28 Aug 2011
By Howard
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was initially quite impressed and excited with this book, and to be fair, it helped get a couple of elements up relatively quickly (notably S3 and cloudfront related things, but these are not the rocket science). I picked it because I needed to get up to speed quickly and it was the most recent publication on the topic, plus I generally like O'Reilly technical books.

It covers most of the AWS elements with a couple of newer exceptions, in a relatively easy straightforward "adult" tone (no stupid joking around) I'm using the EC2 sections right now which have not answered all my questions unfortunately.

I feel the content is a bit mixed up throughout the book and doesn't flow as well as it might. It seems to jump between disparate examples without sufficient (generalised) explanation of architecture choices and such like. This "jumpiness" detracts from the overall appeal for me.

I continue to dip in and out of the book which says something positive about usefulness and it is more approachable than a lot of the amazon technical docs. I will say this - in terms of high level familiarisation with the diverse and often complicated number of services offered, it does succeed, but I ended up going much deeper with the amazon technical docs rather than with content in the book itself.

But I can't quite put my finger on why this book doesn't quite hit the mark for me. I'm an experienced sysadmin/developer and may be I was expecting something a bit more heavyweight than is contained in the 150ish pages, perhaps I am not the intended audience
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Useful introduction 20 Aug 2012
By jcs
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I read this book in one sitting on a single plane ride. Strengths:
* Dives straight into practical details of working with EC2 rather than waffling over cloud
* Straightforward language, doesn't succumb to cloud-mania.

Weaknesses:
* Doesn't go deep enough into the hard parts of EC2 applications (redundancy, spanning apps across zones)
* Long/verbose code samples which fill a lot of paper but don't add much and probably should have been a separate download.
* A bit web-centric, assumes the typical EC2 horizontally-scalable Rails type application.

This is a useful book if you are picking up EC2, if only because it is light enough to get out the way in very little time. However, once you've devoured this you will need to seek out deeper information elsewhere.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Short book based on author's experiences 30 April 2011
By Richard Bejtlich - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Because this is a short book, I'll write a short review. Programming Amazon EC2 (PAE) explains how to use certain elements of Amazon Web Services to deploy applications in Amazon's cloud infrastructure. The discussion centers on the authors' experiences deploying live, production Web sites (like Kulitzer) using AWS. I found this approach refreshing and novel, because it reads like a playbook for recreating similar infrastructure for the reader's own purposes.

PAE regularly explains how to accomplish tasks using the AWS Web interface, but crucially (for me anyways) the book also generally shows the same processes using command line tools on Linux. Because I find it easier to read CLI instructions than follow screenshots of Web sites, I appreciated the text-based approach. PAE also helps the reader understand the reasoning behind Amazon's release of various AWS offerings. It's clearer now the problems Amazon was solving internally, which drove the delivery of new capabilities to customers.

My main problem with PAE is the almost total lack of security considerations. I say "almost" because the word "secure" does appear on p 87: "One advantage of SimpleDB here is that it's ready to use right away. There is no setup or administration hassle, the data is secure..." Sure it is! The authors also mention using Access Control Lists to permit Internet users to use Web applications, but otherwise there is no discussion of the risks of relying on cloud infrastructure. Reading recent news should be enough to remind the reader of these issues.

Overall, you will like PAE if you're looking to see how another small company jumpstarted their business by deploying applications in AWS. For future editions I would like to see discussions of security plus comparisons to other cloud offerings.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, broad overview for experienced sysadmins 15 Mar 2011
By John Brady - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Programming Amazon EC2Programming Amazon EC2 is a hands-on guide to use of Amazon's cloud platform, with a focus on showing the reader how to approach the various components of the EC2 ecosystem. The authors state early on that the goal is to give the reader "a sense of all AWS functionality", so you will not find any one area explored in extreme detail.

The text generally achieves its goals. After a brief history of EC2 at Amazon, it moves quickly into establishing the necessary tools environment and then connecting to a new machine instance. This is not a cookbook, and some mundane yet critical details (e.g., setting permissions on your key files to 400 when running on Linux) are skipped; these are not fatal omissions, but they may hamper your experience if you are not seasoned on your platform of choice. Also, most examples are geared toward the Linux (Ubuntu) environment, so you will need to be able to translate those commands and concepts to your chosen environment. Once the machine image has booted, this text will assume that you are fully competent to administer the operating system of that image, including package installation, editing configuration files, etc.

Overall, good breadth of information in a relatively quick read, although you will need to follow along and try the examples with your chosen image/environment/application to really see a return on time invested.

Disclaimer, I was provided access by O'Reilly Publishing to an electronic copy of this book for review purposes.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative read and useful guide 3 April 2011
By Joeyvandijk - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Expecting a book with examples and insights, this book has given me all information I expected. You will read why certain services are made but also where they are most useful by given real-world examples. Between the lines you will get valuable tips about best practices/warnings. While planning to use Python the book focusses on Ruby/PHP/Java but still reading the code makes it clear enough what I will need to do in another programming language to make AWS work for me.

Well done writing, and these are the books you will need to get a good insight in new technology but is also useful while implementing ideas onto AWS!
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