Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services 
by Brian Beach
Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud service. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few years ago. Tasks that traditionally took weeks of work, costing thousands of d...
Price: $56.16 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Resilience and Reliability on AWS 
by Jurg van Vliet, Flavia Paganelli, Jasper Geurtsen
Cloud services are just as susceptible to network outages as any other platform. This concise book shows you how to prepare for potentially devastating interruptions by building your own resilient and reliable applications in the public cloud. Guided by engineers from 9apps - n independent provider of Amazon Web Services and Eucalyptus cloud solutions - you'll learn how to combine AWS with open source ...
Price: $3.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Kevin Schmidt, Christopher Phillips
Although you don't need a large computing infrastructure to process massive amounts of data with Apache Hadoop, it can still be difficult to get started. This practical guide shows you how to quickly launch data analysis projects in the cloud by using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), the hosted Hadoop framework in Amazon Web Services (AWS).Authors Kevin Schmidt and Christopher Phillips demonstrate best ...
Price: $28.58 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Todd Rosner
AWS OpsWorks is a DevOps cloud management solution from Amazon Web Services. The OpsWorks web service works in concert with AWS resources and provides a template-driven approach to automated scaling. Learning AWS OpsWorks is a practical guide that includes details and instructions for scaling multistage environments and deploying applications using AWS OpsWorks.Learning AWS OpsWorks will get you involved in...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Building a Windows IT Infrastructure in the Cloud
by David K. Rensin
Run your entire corporate IT infrastructure in a cloud environment that you control completely - and do it inexpensively and securely with help from this hands-on book. All you need to get started is basic IT experience.You'll learn how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build a private Windows domain, complete with Active Directory, enterprise email, instant messaging, IP telephony, automated managem...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2012
OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook
by Kevin Jackson
Learn how to install and configure all the core components of OpenStack to run an environment that can be managed and operated just like AWS or Rackspace. Master the complete private cloud stack from scaling out compute resources to managing swift services for highly redundant, highly available storage. Practical, real world examples of each service are built upon in each chapter allowing you to progress wi...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2012
by Mitch Garnaat
If you intend to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for remote computing and storage, Python is an ideal programming language for developing applications and controlling your cloud-based infrastructure. This cookbook gets you started with more than two dozen recipes for using Python with AWS, based on the author's boto library.You'll find detailed recipes for working with the S3 storage service as well...
Price: $12.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Jurg van Vliet, Flavia Paganelli, Steven van Wel, Dara Dowd
While it's always been possible to run Java applications on Amazon EC2, Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk makes the process easier - especially if you understand how it works beneath the surface. This concise, hands-on book not only walks you through Beanstalk for deploying and managing web applications in the cloud, you'll also learn how to use this AWS tool in other phases of development.Ideal if ...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011
by Jurg van Vliet, Flavia Paganelli
If you plan to use Amazon Web Services to run applications in the cloud, the end-to-end approach in this book will save you needless trial and error. You'll find practical guidelines for designing and building applications with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and a host of supporting AWS tools, with a focus on critical issues such as load balancing, monitoring, and automation.How do you move an exis...
Price: $4.23 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2011