<DIV><p>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.</p><p>How do you move an existing application to AWS, or design your application so that it scales effectively? How much storage will you require? <i>Programming Amazon EC2</i> not only helps you get started, it will also keep you going once you're successfully positioned in the cloud. This book is a must-read for application architects, developers, and administrators.</p><ul><li>Determine your application's lifecycle and identify the AWS tools you need </li><li>Learn how to build and run your application as part of the development process </li><li>Migrate simple web applications to the cloud with EC2, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and CloudFront content delivery </li><li>Meet traffic demand with EC2's Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing </li><li>Decouple your application using Simple Queue Service, Simple Notification Service, and other tools </li><li>Use the right tools to minimize downtime, improve uptime, and manage your decoupled system </li></ul><p> "Jurg and Flavia have done a great job in this book building a practical guide on how to build real systems using AWS."<br> --Werner Vogels, VP & CTO at Amazon.com</p></div>