Chapter 9
AWS Platform Services
In This Chapter
Sorting out the AWS platform services
Seeing what CloudSearch can offer
Managing video formats with Elastic Transcoder
Making your way through the Simple services
Managing big data with Elastic MapReduce
Data warehousing with Redshift
Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives you the core services S3, EC2, and Amazon EBS and then all the additional services I cover in Chapter 8, such as IAM, ELB, and Route 53. The AWS platform services, however, are the focus of this chapter — they dial up the level of sophistication, by concentrating on these three areas of functionality:
Services that provide additional application functionality: For example, Amazon’s Simple Queue Service (SQS) provides functionality to enable asynchronous communication between ...
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