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Is Amazon Web Services a realistic platform for Enterprise Development? ...

Do you use Amazons Cloud services for your company?

I read a lot about the possibilities of Amazons Cloud computing, like S3 or EC2 and I wondered if someone actually uses this for mission-critical applications. Do you host your company website in the cloud? Do you store files there? Do you run your build servers in the cloud? There are already some services like Scalr or WeoCeo that cou...

Delete Amazon S3 buckets?

I've been interacting with Amazon S3 through S3Fox and I can't seem to delete my buckets. I select a bucket, hit delete, confirm the delete in a popup, and... nothing happens. Is there another tool that I should use? ...

Is there a way to have index.html functionallity with content hosted on S3?

Is there a way to make S3 default to an index.html page? E.g.: My bucket object listing: /index.html /favicon.ico /images/logo.gif A call to www.mysite.com/index.html works great! But if one were to call www.mysite.com/ we'd either get a 403 or a REST object listing XML document depending on how bucket-level ACL was configured. So,...

Parsing XML Elements & Attributes with Perl

So I wrote some perl that would parse results returned from the Amazon Web Services. I am using the XML::Simple package. For the most part, everything worked when I pulled out an element. However, the problem I ran into was when an element had an attribute as well. Then I get an error that the item is a Hash. Here's what I did if ...

Does Amazon S3 fail sometimes?

Hi We just added an autoupdater in our software and got some bug report saying that the autoupdate wouldn't complete properly because the downloaded file's sha1 checksum wasn't matching. We're hosted on Amazon S3... That's either something wrong with my code or something wrong with S3. I reread my code for suspicious stuff and wrote a...

How does dedicated webhosting compare to Amazon's Cloud?

After stumbling into Amazon Web Services again I have finally checked their prices and am shocked. Positively. With their flexible billing and extremely low prices, is there any reason for still using a dedicated hosting for a website? The only one I can think of is keeping sensitive data confined to the intranet - but for publicly acces...

Add service reference to Amazon service fails

Add service reference to Amazon service fails, saying "Could not load file or assembly "System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0,...' or one or more of it dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest." This is in VS 2008, haven't installed SP1 on this machine yet. Any ideas? ...

Amazon API library for Python?

What Python libraries do folks use for querying Amazon product data? (Amazon Associates Web Service - used to be called E-Commerce API, or something along those lines). Based on my research, PyAWS (http://pyaws.sourceforge.net/) seems okay, but still pretty raw (and hasn't been updated in a while). Wondering if there's an obvious canon...

Amazon SimpleDB

Has anyone considered using something along the lines of the Amazon SimpleDB data store as their backend database? SQL Server hosting (at least in the UK) is expensive so could something like this along with cloud file storage (S3) be used for building apps that could grow with your application. Great in theory but would anyone conside...

PayPal versus Amazon Honor System

I'm currently planning to integrate a donation system into a web page for a project that I manage. Currently, there are two services I'm looking at using - PayPal and Amazon Honor System. I want the system to be as easy-to-use - basically, if people choose to donate, I'd like them to have to do so in as few steps as possible and in a ma...

How can I lookup data about a book from its barcode number?

I'm building the world's simplest library application. All I want to be able to do is scan in a book's UPC (barcode) using a typical scanner (which just types the numbers of the barcode into a field) and then use it to look up data about the book... at a minimum, title, author, year published, and either the Dewey Decimal or Library of C...

Run Amazon EC2 AMI in Windows

Is there a way to run an Amazon EC2 AMI image in Windows? I'd like to be able to do some testing and configuration locally. I'm looking for something like Virtual PC. ...

Impact of AWS Account Identifiers

I'm using Amazon's tools to build a web app. I'm very happy with them, but I have a security concern. Right now, I'm using multiple EC2 instances, S3, SimpleDB and SQS. In order to authenticate requests to the different services, you include your Access Identifiers (login required). For example, to upload a file to S3 from an EC2 inst...

How can I track the sales rank of an item on Amazon programatically?

I've seen several products that will track the sales rank of an item on Amazon. Does Amazon have any web-services published that I can use to get the sales rank of a particular item? I've looked through the AWS and didn't see anything of that nature. ...

Amazon - EC2 cost?

1 am thinking of hosting a python based app on Amazon EC2. It will be really helpful to know the cost of an EC2 and S3 combo. Does typical ($7/month) shared hosting compare to the bandwidth cost + EC2 1 instance + S3 storage? (will the cost difference be minimal?) I understand that all this varies, Can you share your cost/month and your ...

Can you use Amazon S3 via Flex?

Due to the lack of clientaccesspolicy.xml, there appears to be problems with using Amazon S3 via Flex. Are there any work arounds? Edit: Both of the below answers are great and work, I've upvoted both (I'm not going to assign an answer to the question as they both work): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/186768/can-you-use-amazon-s3-v...

Have you made interesting use of Mechanical Turk?

I would like to hear about interesting projects which made use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. ...

Deploying to Amazon EC2

Has anyone got much experience deploying applications to Amazons EC2? I am considering doing this in future and wonder about peoples experiences compared to shared hosting and dedicated server hosting are. ...

What's the best python soap stack for consuming Amazon Web Services WSDL?

Python has a number of soap stacks; as near as I can tell, all have substantial defects. Has anyone had luck consuming and using WSDL for S3, EC2, and SQS in python? My experience is that suds fails when constructing a Client object; after some wrangling, ZSI generates client code that doesn't work; etc. Finally, I'm aware of boto but...