Programming Amazon EC2
by Jurg van Vliet, Flavia Paganelli · first published 2011
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I read through and got a lot out of O'Reilly's "Programming Amazon EC2". It is short and sweet with some good real world examples. http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Amazon-EC2-Jurg-Vliet/dp/1...
on “Ask HN: What is the best Amazon Web Services book?” ↗…before that took me a minute for each deployment - not so good. All that said, AWS is really awesome for some jobs like periodically crunching data with MapReduce, etc. I bought a very useful little book "Programming Amazon EC2" a few years ago, and I recommend that as a good reference for using the AWS APIs.
on “Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean” ↗Hi HN I work in IT, and I'm trying to expand my knowledge by learning AWS and get my head around the alphabet soup of AWS offerings. I bought "Programming Amazon EC2" from O'Reilly, and while it covers the terminology, I find there's a lack of feedback for doing the exercises right, because it says to just follow along with your own app while they work with theirs.…
on “Ask HN: Resources to Learn AWS?” ↗"Programming Amazon EC2" mentioned using the "Alestic" Ubuntu image rather the one from Canonical directly, but it didn't elaborate on who/what alestic was. I appreciate the information and will definitely look over the site.…
on “Ask HN: Resources to Learn AWS?” ↗