Acknowledgments

Writing a book is time consuming. We invested our time, and other people did as well. We think that time is the most valuable resource on Earth, and we want to honor every minute spent by the people who helped us with this book.

To all the readers who bought the MEAP edition of the book, who motivated us by their confidence in us to finish the book, and who shared their interest in AWS: thank you for reading the book. We hope you learned a lot.

Thank you to all the people who posted comments in the book’s Author Online forum and who provided excellent feedback that improved the book.

Thank you to all the reviewers who provided detailed comments from the first to the last page: Arun Allamsetty, Carm Vecchio, Chris Bridwell, Dieter Vekeman, Ezra Simeloff, Henning Kristensen, Jani Karhunen, Javier Muñoz Mellid, Jim Amrhein, Nestor Narvaez, Rambabu Posa, Scott Davidson, Scott M. King, Steffen Burzlaff, Tidjani Belmansour, and William E. Wheeler. Your input helped shape this book—we hope you like it as much as we do.

We also want to thank Manning Publications for placing their trust in us. This is our first book, so we know this was a high-risk venture for them. We want to thank the following staff at Manning for their excellent work: