Getting Started with AWS Kindle Edition

This book is very easy to read and to understand. The information in the text part is very informative and there are plenty of diagrams and illustrations that fully explain how AWS works.Being a beginner to AWS, I found this book very helpful and I fully recommend it!

This is a very poor document that was written years ago. It is not for newcomers to AWS. It is a catalog of features, not a tutorial. Don't waste your time. Buy a good intro book or watch any of the numerous videos about AWS.

They need to hire some technical writers who do not know the product because their entire site is disjointed and difficult to follow. There are holes all over where the subtleties are not mentioned. The sample code utilizing cocoapods for Swift had some obvious bugs (which is not unusual since swift is evolving) but after a clean compile the sample runs but produces no output whatsoever. The view controllers are lame with no direction at all, just some boxes. the code shows that a call is made to a progress method yet it does not appear.I downloaded the SDK and wrestled my way through it in spite of the documentation and had a test app running in 4 hours.

Too vague, like a bunch of landing pages with links out to more resources that are similarly vague on specific topics.It is a starting point, but don't expect too much from this document - it won't actually get you started & using AWS - there's a lot more reading to do before you'll be able to put all those pieces of knowledge together to do anything.

A good bird's eye view of the topic with LOTS of links to additional material. Unfortunately (I am reading this on an iPad) the links do not work. I really would like to go to the links, but all I get is a message that the operation is not supported.

For a person who is well aware how to layout system architecture, tiered, multiple nodes etc this overview gives the cloud novice a good idea that cloud systems are no different than hosted systems except YOU are directly leasing the nodes and managing same. The idea is right on in that now an individual with decent systems knowledge can easily design / configure a multi-node system architecture with fail-over, resilence, replication, caching, load balancing VERY QUICKLY and at great reduced cost.

The good: it's a good, brief introduction.The bad: Too much time wasted telling us how great it is, rather than what it is and how it works.The ugly: A huge amount of time wasted telling exactly what you can and cannot do within the free trial.I would have liked more information and less sales pitch.

Good introduction to different services available.I am quite new and want to learn About AWS, but got confused because so much terminology like EC2,S3,EMR ,RDS etc.. Not sure where to start. But this quick book explains nice.Note: it's only introduction to services

This book simply lists the AWS services available with one or two sentences describing each. I was hoping for a little more depth however the last several pages were just links to specific examples. I expect these examples will provide the overview I am looking for.