Rating: 

My biggest complain about this book (and one which couldn't have been avoided at the time they wrote this book) is that it is currently outdated. Granted, everything the author wrote at the time the book was published was true about AWS. But several of his complaints have since been handled quite well by Amazon, and they are no longer problems.

If you want to gain a broad understanding of AWS, I recommend buying this book. Just keep in mind that if the author says "Something like YYY can't be done with AWS" --chances are, it probably can now.