Amazon Web Services for Developers For Dummies

Modern businesses rely on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), a setup where someone else foots the bill to create application environments due to costs, but users also access data on the local network. Consequently, developers must know how to write both platform-specific and IaaS-supported applications. Most developers today typically write desktop and web applications only, so this book is an essential tool in getting started in the IaaS environment.
The book will:

• Help budding developers assess the development options to produce the kind of result actually needed, rather than the one Amazon thinks the reader might need.
• Create an environment where the reader learns to use the simplest approach to accomplishing any given task, starting with the management consoles (and a full explanation of the XML files that keep popping up in them).
• Provide developers with step-by-step instructions for working at the command line, making it possible to automate some tasks using something as simple as the batch processing features offered by most platforms.
• Define a process devs can use to create a usable development system.
• Show techniques for using the basic AWS APIs.