AWS For Developers For Dummies

<b>Everything you need to get running with IaaS for Amazon Web Services</b> <p>Modern businesses rely on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)—a setup in which someone else foots the bill to create application environments—and developers are expected to know how to write both platform-specific and IaaS-supported applications. If you’re a developer who writes desktop and web applications but have little-to-no experience with cloud development, this book is an essential tool in getting started in the IaaS environment with Amazon Web Services. <p>In <i>Amazon Web Services For Developers For Dummies,</i> you’ll quickly and easily get up to speed on which language or platform will work best to meet a specific need, how to work with management consoles, ways you’ll interact with services at the command line, how to create applications with the AWS API, and so much more. <ul> <li>Assess development options to produce the kind of result that’s actually needed</li> <li>Use the simplest approach to accomplish any given task</li> <li>Automate tasks using something as simple as the batch processing features offered by most platforms</li> <li>Create example applications using JavaScript, Python, and R</li> <li>Discover how to use the XML files that appear in the management console to fine tune your configuration</li> </ul> <p>Making sense of Amazon Web Services doesn’t have to be as difficult as it seems—and this book shows you how.