We're considering Amazon EC2 for a project.
I'd appreciate some recommendations for books or other learning resource that were essential, practical, and helped you have an easier time with this platform.
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Assuming that you've decided to use EC2 as your cloud provider, I think Amazon's online documentation is more than adequate; try the Getting Started Guide to begin with.
If you're looking to compare cloud solutions, try cloud-hosting-providers.com.
gareth_bowles
2010-07-24 22:29:38
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I'm just getting started myself, but so far I would agree wiht gareth_bowles. Amazon's docs are pretty good. After you go through the Getting Started Guide, the next on the list for me was the Amazon EC2 User Guide, then I'll get to the Amazon EC 2 Developer Guide - those can be found here: http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ec2/
I also have a copy of the Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructures in the Cloud - which seems to be a decent (and short) book on cloud in general - but AWS specifically.
The developer kits have some good sample code to for the simple stuff to get you started but I haven't dug into those yet.
Jason Haley
2010-07-26 09:52:30