amazon-web-services

Amazon Web Services

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

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 ...

Amazon S3 standalone stub server

I seem to recall reading about an Amazon S3-compatible test server that you could run on your own server for unit tests or whatever. However, I've just exhausted my patience looking for this with both Google and AWS. Does such a thing exist? If not, I think I'll write one. Note: I'm asking about Amazon S3 (the storage system) rather tha...

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...

Experiences and tips for programming with and for Amazon's cloud servers/apps/tools?

We're looking into developing a product that would use Amazon's cloud tools (EC2, SQS, etc), and I'm curious what tips/gotchas/pointers people that have used these technologies have. One tip/whatever per post, please. ...

What do you need to take into consideration when deciding between MySQL and Amazon's SimpleDB for a RoR app?

I am just beginning to do research into the feasibility of using Amazon's SimpleDB service as the datastore for RoR application I am planning to build. We will be using EC2 for the web server, and had planned to also use EC2 for the MySQL servers. But now the question is, why not use SimpleDB? The application will (if successful) need t...

Have you made interesting use of Mechanical Turk?

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

SSH into Amazon EC2 Instance

I'm working to set up Panda on an Amazon EC2 instance. I set up my account and tools last night and had no problem using SSH to interact with my own personal instance, but right now I'm not being allowed permission into Panda's EC2 instance. Getting Started with Panda I'm getting the following error: @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIV...

Fluffy Cloud Configurations For .NET

Very simple question, is there any cloud server enviroments avaliable these days for us .NET guys that rivals Amazons ec2? EDIT: PDC 2008 looks like there are some very interesting info, and only 4 days 2 hours to wait :-). Looks like I need to get saving fast for the conference fee though. ...

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...

Single instance Amazon EC2

We're running a lightweight web app on a single EC2 server instance, which is fine for our needs, but we're wondering about monitoring and restarting it if it goes down. We have a separate non-Amazon server we'd like to use to monitor the EC2 and start a fresh instance if necessary and shut down the old one. All our user data is on Elas...

Book recommendation for running ASP.NET/SQL Server on AWS

Are there any good books out there on the topic of using Amazon Web Services with good content related to running windows web applications and SQL Server on Amazon's cloud platform? I am most interested in books that go into some detail about configuration and best practices regarding running SQL Server, IIS, and AD on EC2. ...

Can I set the expires header on all objects in an Amazon S3 bucket all at once?

I've got about 200k images in a bucket. They all have expires headers of 2050 but I've read you shouldn't send an expires header older than a year. I want to schedule a script to run every month and set the headers to 6 months away. Anything out there? Obviously I'd like to avoid iterating 200k objects. ...

Using Amazon AWS to create an offline database

Hi, Problem Statement: I would like to create an offline database to lookup prices/info on the n most useful books to sell in the United States (where n is probably 3 million or so). Question: So, my question is (and I am open to other approaches here as well), I am trying to figure out how to use Amazon AWS to download a list of the ...

How far can you really go with "eventual" consistency and no transactions (aka SimpleDB)?

I really want to use SimpleDB, but I worry that without real locking and transactions the entire system is fatally flawed. I understand that for high-read/low-write apps it makes sense, since eventually the system becomes consistent, but what about that time in between? Seems like the right query in an inconsistent db would perpetuate ha...

What are your suggestions for storing AWS authentication data?

Scenario: a web application written in PHP utilizes an Amazon Web Service and must keep the Access Key ID and a Secret Access Key handy in order to function. Are there current recommendations and/or API's out there for storing this data securely? My thought is to symmetrically encrypt it into a file based on a key created from local se...

Average Amazon EC2 Instance Price for WEB HOSTING

Our company is thinking about switching IT hosting strategy for the long run. We have been playing with some EC2 instances and we are interested in looking at a possible switch over cloud computing. Our only option is not amazon but is definitely one of the famous. I know that there are different instance options in terms of pricing...

Average EC2 Uptime?

Curious as to 99.95% uptime REALLY means; Is it really going to go down 7 minutes a month? Please post your longest/average uptimes on EC2, thanks. ...

Source for useful EC2 AMIs

Using Amazon's own client libraries (or alternatives), you can get listings of available pre-packaged AMIs, but the interface is definitely designed for scriptability, not readability. Elasticfox is better, but still doesn't make it easy to see what an AMI does, allow for user rating, etc. Is there a centralised place for me to easily f...