Mining Amazon Web Services: Building Applications with the Amazon API

by John Paul Mueller, Sybex

Profit with Amazon Web Services—as a Buyer, Seller, or Independent Developer In a few short years, Amazon has evolved from an online bookstore into a complex marketplace comprised of thousands of vendors, millions of customers, and an ever-widening selection of products. With the launch of Amazon Web Services, buyers and sellers have unprecedented access to the immense body of data underpinning this marketplace. Mining Amazon Web Building Applications with the Amazon API shows you what you can do with these powerful tools, and exactly how to do it. As a buyer, you'll build applications that let you comparison-shop far more effectively, consistently saving money and finding exactly the right product. As a seller, you'll leverage Amazon Web Services in ways that help you attract more customers, make more commissioned referrals, and improve your bottom line. This book is also a great resource for independent developers who want to create and publish—even make money with—applications for others. Here's some of what you'll find covered All that's required is some basic experience with any one of several programming languages, including VBA, Visual Basic 6, Visual C++ 6, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C# .NET, Java, and PHP, all of which are fully represented in the book's downloadable code.

Genres: Programming

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 23, 2004

Reviews

[Rob · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF on account of this book being obsolete. I don't just mean it is antiquated the way many computer books have become over the decades. The technologies those books cover usually still exist, even if they're legacy. I mean, like, Amazon has completely sunsetted its tech from the Internet and replaced it with new tech. Which has in turn been sunsetted and replaced itself. We're like three (or four, I forget now) generations away from this ever having any relevance; we're so beyond this iteration of Amazon's web APIs that the eponymous "web services" so referenced are no longer even considered part of Amazon's Web Services arsenal. They're just /things/ that Amazon has. When I posted about the book in the AWS Reddit my post was removed with this admonishment:

Hi, sorry, but I removed this post, as this subreddit
is specifically for Amazon Web Services, and not for
any other Amazon services.


Whatever its value when it was released, in 2024 reading this book out of anything other than historical interest is nothing but a waste of time.

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