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bookworm8 –
Ideal introduction to AWS?
Excellent information about AWS presented in an easy to understand way. Good index which helps find the relevant information.
A. Cresswell –
excellent primer for those that are curious or want to venture into the AWS world.
Excellent read and a great primer. For someone who knew nothing about AWS but has been working in the SaaS/IaaS space for some time this a really good introduction to AWS and has some fascinating chapters and topic’s… I’ve included the first couple of Chapter Heading and some of the topics covered in the chapters to give you a flavour….Getting Started with AWS Starting your Aws Adventure Obtaining Free Amazon Services Determining which Services to useConfiguring a Virtual Server Creating a Virtual Server using EC2 Getting to know the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Managing Web Apps using Elastic Beanstalk
One person found this helpful
CtrlAltDel –
Complicated subject
I’m finding this book tough going. I have a technical background albeit not in server management. In the past I’ve browsed AWS and attempted to get started using their tutorials. But they didn’t help so I got this book because I thought it would explain things more simply from the beginning.However it’s written in a way that as complicated as the AWS online help. In other words it’s still going over my head.I think if you already have an affinity with servers, this book will be useful. For me, not so much at the moment.However, I’m going to blame my advancing years and give my brain a rest and try again in a few weeks to see if it makes more sense. Will update this review if I have any success.
Margaret7 –
Excellent resource
As someone who knew very little about cloud computing I found this a very interesting introduction – at the start – before it got too technical for my needs. However I now have an understanding of how to use the free aspect of Amazon WS and how to keep it so – which is important for me. Personally I would have liked the screenshots in colour – something the For Dummies folks don’t do all that often and I did also find the print in the screen shots quite hard to read.However this book is actually for professionals and small businesses – and for that it seems to be a very comprehensive and useful resource. My son, who is studing computing at the moment, is finding the book a big help as an extra text and reports that the step by step process and the detailed explanations are making all the difference to him while he is learning the ropes. It gives an extra level of confidence both in practice and in preparation for theoretical and practical examinations.
One person found this helpful
Wiltshire Bookworm –
Not for me
I chose this book because I thought it’d help me use AWS for my business. However, I think I need the pre-dummies book as I quickly found I was over my head despite working at the business analysis side of IT for a couple of decades.It doesn’t help that the plentiful screenshots are in grey and a lot of the accompanying text is miniscule.Yet another Dummies book which is crying out for full colour and clearer text.I’m giving the book the benefit of the doubt with 3 stars – for myself I’d award it 2 stars, but I suspect I’m not the person this book is aimed at.
One person found this helpful
writeallthereviews –
like most certification offerings
AWS, like most certification offerings, is a dry subject. It’s hard to make any IT certification read in an interesting way, and so the main fight for series like the dummies line of books, is to make a topic engaging enough for the subject matter to stick. On top of that, AWS administration, when you’re used to Wintel servers and on premise solutions, can be a bit daunting. This is an accessible text and great for anyone already in the industry, having to take on or implement an AWS service. It’s geared towards overall knowledge, and not just certification in the topic, which is great. A well-written and well-edited text. A good desk reference.
ChrisChris –
Loads of helpful screenshots, but the print resolution is dreadful and there’s no colour
● First criticism of this book: It’s all black & white (grayscale) — there are numerous screenshots throughout the book; it would have made the book a lot more readable if it was colour.● The print resolution is very poor. Such that small text just renders as fuzzy dots. [Caveat: Perhaps this is just because I have a review copy.]● This stuff goes out out date really fast as Amazon changes and tweaks stuff, but at the time of writing (6 Jan 2017), everything seems current.● AWS (Amazon Web Services) is vast and intimidating. Its scope is immense. I had low expectations — I suspected that a humble Dummies Guide wouldn’t clear everything up for me.. and it doesn’t.. BUT it seems like a decent introduction for small-to-medium sized business (SMB).● AWS still makes me want to cry. Even with this book. Perhaps it’s my tiny brain, but it’s just confusing. I have found YouTube tutorials to be invaluable when trying to get your head around it. (Just search YouTube and look for the videos with a lot of thumbs up votes — people make them for free..)● I think this book is useful for IT literate people (nerds) who want to dip their toes into AWS using their free tier. The book tells you about hidden costs and charges to watch out for.. and other little things to consider. (Amazon gives you a number of hours for free but you will eventually have to pay.)An aside: I used AWS’s free tier before. I strayed slightly over to the point that I owed Amazon pennies for that month, BUT they (or my bank) also levied a charge (about £1.50 or £2) because I was paying them in dollars. [This isn’t mentioned in the book, presumably because it’s written by an American.]● Note: this book will not help you at all if you’re a technophobe. Do NOT buy this book if you just think AWS seems a bit interesting.. this book won’t make everything understandable! (No book can!)In conclusion :● The introduction is good — it tells you why you would want to avoid using AWS and instead use local physical hardware — but much of it is NOT readable as a book; it’s a reference for nerds.● I wonder if the Dummies brand is becoming too ambitious? They should probably do separate books on EC2 and S3. In other words, this title is too daunting and should probably be broken up?
One person found this helpful
Zipster Zeus –
Great resource delivered with the usual dummies flair
Rather good intro to AWS that starts at the basics and builds up more in-depth analysis and detail as you progress through the book. It’s a great resource and delivered with the usual dummies flair for accessible but adequately detailed information and description of systems and techniques as required. Ideal for use as a reference manual, or to read from cover-to-cover if you need to get up to speed and conversant with AWS.
Amazon Customer –
NA
Not up to expectations
NOTiFY –
The Penny Dropped
Like all Dummies books took a confusing subject and made it clear.
One person found this helpful
user1 –
5.0 out of 5 stars
Helps Wrap Your Head Around Cloud Services
If you have limited experience with cloud services and with AWS specifically, this book succeeds in helping you wrap your head around the concepts. That alone earns it 5 stars. The author obviously has a talent in explaining complex topics and ideas in simple terms.
Artoo –
5.0 out of 5 stars
How many Admins like being called Dummies?
Could help but laugh at the title, because not very many system administrators like being called a dummy. So kudos to the Dummies book for taking a gamble. :)My familiarity with AWS was mostly with S3 and Cloudfront, but I wanted to learn more about the other services.Amazon likes to create service after service and then give it a lot of intuitive names like S3, E2, beanstalks, etc.The book goes beyond beginner level introductions into the services.I particularly enjoyed the reference to security concerns with examples. You might think of Amazon being secure, but get the wrong configuration, and you could be in some serious trouble. Even with the right configuration, you’re never 100% secure. Related to that, the book covers encryption types for storage and the risks with each type.Just remember that if there’s a breach in security, it won’t be Amazon that’ll be responsible, it’ll be the owner of the data, so set your policies, use encryption and really determine what needs to be stored in the cloud.The rest of the book talks about the various AWS offerings and how to get them started and considerations an admin needs to be aware of.Just don’t call us dummies. 😉
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One for All –
5.0 out of 5 stars
Truly is a fantastic resource for those of us wanting to learn more about what AWS has to offer, but don’t know where to start
This is an excellent “For Dummies” book that provides wonderful high-level guidance for Amazon WebServices. My only hesitation was the “For Admins” part of the title, but if you are not incredibly technical, there is still much you can glean from the book. For my organization, I do more strategic IT planning. Quite frankly, I am not highly technical, but I know enough conceptually to understand that AWS can really free an IT organization up (or create nightmares if not done properly). This book explains the entire AWS toolset; there are dozens of separate services (or applications), many of them free, that can help out most IT shops. This books assumes you are a dummy (which I am when it comes to AWS), and walks you through from giving simple definitions of IaaS versus SaaS, all the way to tactical steps to take to leverage infrastructure services, migrate databases, use LAMP stacks, and so on and so on. If you want to get your feet wet with AWS and at least have a quick reference to have for understand the high level concepts, I highly recommend this resource!
4 people found this helpful
Worddancer Redux –
4.0 out of 5 stars
The book seems well-organized and clear….but it was over my head, so I cannot be a reliable assessor of its content.
Sadly, either I am just too much of a non-tech dummy or this book simply is over the head of people without more initial experience with AWS.Obviously *I* cannot say which is true.The book seems well-organized and clear.
One person found this helpful
James Beswick –
3.0 out of 5 stars
Adequate coverage but probably still confusing for beginnners
As a AWS Certified architect, I’ve been looking for a book like this to recommend to devs and business managers for quite some time. The difficulty for any author in writing about AWS is that the speed of change in the platform exceeds the publishing process, and the number of building blocks provided make it hard to give the reader adequate coverage without writing a tome. It’s also increasingly hard to write books like this given the number of interactive online tutorials that can be a better learning aid, just due to the nature of the subject.Mueller covers the material reasonably well but though at times seems to dart around from basic topics (e.g. files in S3) to advanced and more confusing areas (e.g. Direct Connect or IAM), the difference being like boiling an egg versus making a souffle. I think there are some potentially conflicting messages about data breaches in the cloud versus whether it’s truly more secure (it is, in case you’re wondering) whereas the discussion would be better suited to best practices to avoid obvious security pitfalls.The author is a somewhat prolific technology writer who can generally write about anything very competently but I think he misses the mark on this topic, given the breadth and capabilities of the platform. It doesn’t cover the agility afforded by the environment, or the options provided by a DevOps approach, or the freeing of developers when infrastructure becomes code. That said, neither does any other introductory book at this stage so if you’re looking for textbook instead of joining LinuxAcademy.com or taking certification training, it does cover the bases.
2 people found this helpful
John Smith –
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good for AWS newbies
This book provides lots of good guidance for people that are new to AWS. It may not be sufficient if you have already dived into some of the more common AWS services like EC2 and S3.This book also provides some basic security best practices and advises on how to keep your AWS cost down.For any AWS book, you have to keep in mind that Amazon keeps introducing new and improved services every few months so most books will not be able to provide the most up-to-date information.
One person found this helpful
Farhan K –
5.0 out of 5 stars
As an IT Professional – I wish this book landed on my desk 2 years back
As part of my 11 Year career in IT/Platform Administration, I’ve been part of the whole shift in the industry, first from Physical servers to Virtual and more recently from Virtual to the public cloud. At the time we had do rely on our own research and Amazon’s own documentation which can be sales-y or confusing at times in order to understand their service offerings or go for expensive education-partner trainingsThis book would have been godsend for IT administrators back then, it approaches the subject in a very structured format . first by building the case for moving your applications/services to the cloud and then Amazon Web Services itself and all the other services that Amazon has to offer ( EC2, RDS etc) and then the in depth of setting up and managing your AWS instances . It also covers what types of certifications Amazon has to offer and who they are best suited for.CONTENT- The book does provide a step by step guide with plenty of illustrations to get your first AWS Instance running using the free/trial services AWS has to offer- It does adequately warn of of the hidden costs, common pitfalls where free may not actually end up being free- It does make a very good comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of running your application on a cloud platform vs your own dedicated infrastructure ( Hint : It boils down to $$ )- It does cover all the required prerequisite considerations such as sizing (CPU,Storage) network, database requirements and the options you have to connect the application on your network to Amazon’s cloud using VPN or available service providers like AT&T Netbond- It introduces and covers topics like Elastic beanstalk, DB Migration tools and examples using WordPress/Magneto etc in detail for helping you gain a working understanding of the process- Towards the end the book covers some of the best practices and common pitfalls an admin must consider while setting up their AWS instance quickly and effectivelyWHO THIS BOOK IS BEST SUITED FOREven though the book claims is not making too many assumptions about its audience , I do feel that, as its title suggests, its best suited for people who already have a background in IT and who know how client-server applications work in general . The book also assumes that you already know about the platform (Windows/Unix) you want, the workings of your application and you’re looking what would it take for it to run & manage it on Amazon’s cloud platform- The preview in the listing of this book is very generous and has a very large number of pages available in preview, I highly recommend in checking it out to make your own determination if the book’s right for youFINAL THOUGHTSOverall I really liked this book and it serves me as a handy reference for my work. I can definitely recommend it for IT Professionals who are just starting to deal with AWS and cloud migrations or IT managers who manage a team of Cloud Engineers as a handy primer and learning guide. It may just not be the best book to start with if you are looking to learn AWS/Cloud and the underlying fundamental IT concepts from scratch
6 people found this helpful
Mathew A. Shember –
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good noob book
Finally got around to looking into AWS. Mainly due to a layoff.This is a book for those who have heard of AWS and have no clue to what it is involved. This is a beginners book which what the dummies book series tends to address. If you are looking for ways to do things better? Not the book for you.Probably the biggest lesson is to monitor and understand configuration and its usage as it can burn you financially. I don’t trust things with built in “oops” and it looks like AWS has an “oops” quotient in its design.What is good about this book is that it touches on several areas:* How to get the free services.* What is free and what has hidden costs though casual review show it as free.* You get to dabble with EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Event monitoring, Storage, EFS, Archiving, DBMs and RDBms, VPC, Infrastructure and supporting users and business software.* There are links for more infomation, tools, and third party.* Suggestions for tools and software to support AWS.* The author does warn you on “oops” situations and tells you to avoid certain things and at times delete the configuration you just created.Issues with the book:* A couple of the pictures were out of date; can’t blame the author as the AWS docs were not up to date as well.* A couple of the links are dead.* Maybe too much on databases. Required for AWS and yet it can bore you. Unless you routinely work with them, you might find yourself skimming or worse; re-reading paragraphs a few times. If that is the case; take breaks in between the databases.Overall; it’s not a bad book especially if you are a complete noob with AWS administration or wonder if that is something you would like to do. If you are looking for a cookbook? Not the book for you. If you already work on AWS? This will be a waste of your time.
One person found this helpful
Mike Lawrence –
5.0 out of 5 stars
AWS newbie
I am a AWS newbie and this book was extremely helpful
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Casual Android –
2.0 out of 5 stars
A lot of general content, not enough AWS
A lot of general content, not enough AWS. For example, author spends a lot of time explaining relational database basics. Then, when it it’s time to launch an RDS instance in AWS, you just get a list of steps to do, without explaining what each step actually does, what to watch out for or any of the AWS terminology. If book is about AWS, focus should be on AWS. Would not recommend.
5 people found this helpful
Things And Stuff –
You’d be a dummy not to read this
For beginners but not for dummies, I found this gave me enough to hit the ground running when it comes to learning AWS as a total newbie. The series For Dummies is excellent and builds up beyond the basics without too much jargon.