AWS for Beginners: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Learn and Understand Amazon Web Services and Its Future in Modern World

This is a great example of how "You can't judge a book by its cover" - the cover is colorful and attractive. Unfortunately the content is terrible. I give it a two and not one star rating, because it does provide some useful information. Here's why:- It consists mostly of bullet points, which don't explain well the issue mentioned. As such, it is more of an outline than a real book itself.- The book is full of occasional ungrammatical constructs and non-sequiturs.- Less that half the book actually covers AWS. (See below.)- There are very few illustrations, particularly none in the section which purports to be a tutorial. This renders that section almost useless, given the incomplete description of the steps.- The book runs to 190 pages, but that is because of the large type face and the large line spacing. If it were laid out like most books, I imagine that it would clock in at significantly less than 100 pages.- The book is apparently self-published and printed on-demand by Amazon, given the logo and the date on the back page, which is identical to my order date. This would be strictly an aside, except for the fact that one of the pages pulled out of the book.But the first chapter contains a useful long and possibly complete list of AWS components, both the essential and obscure ones, though with mostly superficial descriptions.And who is the author Vick Middleton? There is no "about the author" section, and an internet search turns up nothing besides references back to the Amazon book.I'm a published author myself, and my suggestions for the author are to:1) Definitely keep the beautiful cover!2) Condense the chapters on AWS alternatives into a single chapter.3) Ditch the AWS Certification and Interview Questions chapters, or at least radically condense them.4) Fill out the bullet point items with explanatory text.3) Hire a good editor and reviewers.

Reads like a high school term paper because it is riddled with strange grammar, typos, random sentence endings. All things that scream of copy and paste in the wee hours of the night and lack of serious editing. Another high school term paper “trick” - It is realistically 90 pages of info stretched to 190 pages because it is double-spaced.It feels like there was some sort of paragraph mandate because each concept is more like an expanded outline heading than an actual descriptive narrative meant to actually teach about a topic. Headings and call-outs are inconsistent.At time it felt like flashcards turned into text. A diagram or a drawing or a graphic of some kind would’ve been helpful. As it is the cover stands is the only actual helpful graphic.There are better books out there for an intro/ overview of AWS. Would not recommend as a supplement.

This should have the description, “An introduction About What AWS Is.” Saying a beginners guide is extremely mis-leading! It is not a guide for beginners at all. In-fact there is Nothing in this book whatsoever to help a beginner get started.

This book was clearly ran through a translation tool, meaning it wasn’t originally written in English. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but the author should paid for an editor. As it is now, It’s good for reference, but not for beginners. Because of the broken grammar you have to draw on any amount of familiarity you may have with the subject or re-read sections multiple times to get through them.

Garbage. This book seems to have been written by AI by transcribing a training class. There was clearly no editing performed before this was sent. Wish I read reviews before purchasing. I find no value whatsoever in this book and am not sure I can trust anything in it. DO NOT PURCHASE!!

The grammer was frequently confusing, but the content was sufficient to illustrate the most critical aws functions. The comparisons with competitors were not consistently formatted making real comparisons difficult. I look forward to an improved second edition.

Content wise, it went a little too deep for beginners in some areas and made reference to things that weren't clearly explained in other parts of the book. Writing style needed another round of editing.

Horrifying grammar, references to links that aren't there, pieces sound like they were cut and pasted from Amazon's website about AWS...I should have purchased something else.