Programming Amazon Web Services. S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB
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Author(s): J. Murty
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 9780596515812
Format: softback
580pp
Price: £30.99
Review Date: 23 July 2008
Review: Amazon Web Services are the suite of services made available by Amazon to allow third-party developers to access and build on the company’s technology platform. These services provide storage, computing power, a messaging system, a payment system and a database that can be accesses by anyone with an amazon.com account and a credit card. This book explores the Amazon web services that provide pay-as-you-go virtual infrastructure, and looks at the practicalities of designing and building applications that take advantage of the Amazon services. It provides detailed sample code and explains how the services can be used both individually and in combination. There are chapters on: Interacting with Amazon Web services; S3 – Simple Storage Services; S3 applications; EC2–Elastic Compute Cloud (beta); using EC2 instances and images; EC2 applications; SQS– Simple Queue Service; SQS applications; FPS – Flexible Payment Service (beta); FPS transactions and accounts; FPS advanced topics; and Simple CB (beta).