How to write a string to Amazon S3 bucket?
How can I add a string as a file on amazon s3? From whaterver I searched, I got to know that we can upload a file to s3. What is the best way to upload data without creating file? ...
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Do any clouds support SSD storage?
I'm using Amazon cloud right now, and the biggest performance issue is horrible I/O performance. As long as something fits RAM it's fine - once it's too big it gets ridiculously slow (in many different scenarios). There are only so many ways one can avoid hitting disk - so the question is - does Amazon or some other cloud provide SSD opt...
In the Amazon AWS API, how do you query if an item is Prime/Super Saver eligible?
I can't find anything in the API docs. A few websites claim to filter Amazon for prime-only items, but I'm not sure how to tell if a given item is Prime/SuperSaver eligible or not. ...
aws reponse format
hi, i m new to amazon web service, i m using its product advertising api to get books info. my understanding is the response should be in xml format. but when i submit REST request in web browser, it returns bunch of info without any format, no xml tags, it's painful to go through those data. any idea? thanks ...
How do you let only authorized user have access contents stored in Amazon's S3?
Once you stored contents in S3 and make it public, then everyone have access to it. Is there a way to let only authorized users have access to the content stored in S3? For example, I have a site that let people store their documents. The server stores these documents in S3 and I would like only the user who uploaded the document to have...
Amazon Elastic Map Reduce - Keep Server alive?
I am testing jobs in EMR and each and every test takes a lot of time to start up. Is there a way to keep the server/master node alive in Amazon EMR? I know this can be done with the API. But, I wanted to know if this can be done in the aws console? ...
Best practices for building a simple, scalable cluster on Amazon EC2 for a Java web app
I want to build a Java web app and deploy it on EC2. It will be written in Java and will use MySQL. I was hoping to get some pointers on the actual deployment process and configuration. In particular I'm interested in the following topics: machine images (DIY vs ready made) mysql replication and backup to S3 ways of deploying and redep...
How to fetch, display Amazon Marketplace listings by item?
Hi all, My question pretty much says it all: I'm looking for a way to display Amazon Marketplace listings based on an item lookup. Example: If I do a call to ItemLookup with an ASIN of 0590353403 (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), I'm looking for a result set of perhaps the top ten new or used Marketplace listings, preferably with...
How to get contents of Amazon shopping cart?
I've been investigating whether it's possible to get a list of the saved items in my Amazon shopping basket programmatically ... Their Product Advertising API has methods for getting wishlists: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/index.html?FindingItemsonLists.html and working with remote shopping carts: h...
Are default mysql parameters in RDS sane?
RDS uses the same set of parameters for all instance sizes and they don't seem to be that far from defaults (max_packet_size being too small etc.) Has anyone looked at them and reviewed them for how sensible they are, especially on relatively bigger instances? ...
Knowing the selections made on a 'multichooser' box in a mechanical turk hit (using Command Line Tools)
Hi All, I am new to Amazon Mechanical Turk, and wanted to create a hit with a qualification task. I am using the command line tools interface. One of the questions in my qualification task involves users selecting a number of options. I use a 'multichooser' selection type. Now I want to grade the responses based on the selections, where...
API to lookup product information by UPC?
Is there an API that allows lookup of product information by UPC? I know that Amazon has the Product Advertising API but don't think it can be used for any purpose other than sending traffic to amazon.com as per their license agreement here. Specifically, my application would not have the principal purpose of advertising and marketi...
Requires a valid Date or x-amz-date header?
I'm getting the following error when attempting to upload a file to S3: S3StorageError: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Error><Code>AccessDenied</Code><Message>AWS authentication requires a valid Date or x-amz-date header</Message><RequestId>7910FF83F3FE17E2</RequestId><HostId>EjycXTgSwUkx19YNkpAoY2UDDur/0d5SMvGJUicpN6qCZFa2Ouqc...
amazon web service
hi, i m trying to get books info from amazon and feed them to my own web app. the problem is it only returned 10 results, how can i get the results after the first 10? Thanks. ...
Do large organizations use Amazon web services?
I was impressed with Amazon's new Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). Amazon has lots of other really impressive web app building blocks. Are there examples of large organizations using AWS? They seem impressive but the downside is you outsource your processing to a third party which could be considered pretty risky. ...
Codeigniter or PHP Amazon API help
Hello, I have a problem searching through amazon web servise using PHP in my CodeIgniter. I get InvalidParameter timestamp is not in ISO-8601 format response from the server. But I don't think that timestamp is the problem,because I have tryed to compare with given date format from http://associates-amazon.s3.amazonaws.com/signed-reques...
amazon web services
Hi, Has anyone of you worked on amazon web services? I just wanted to retrieve the citations of a given book. Is this possible using the aws? Is aws free? Thanks. ...
Amazon S3 Change file download name
I have files stored on S3 with a GUID as the key name. I am using a pre signed URL to download as per S3 REST API I store the original file name in my own Database. When a user clicks to download a file from my web application I want to return their original file name, but currently all they get is a GUID. How can I achieve this? My ...
Amazon S3 is not serving files correctly.
I made this site for my friend and I uploaded it to an Amazon S3 bucket (http://ballard26.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html) and when I go to that site the page doesn't load correctly and I have no idea why. Any ideas? For example, the stylesheet.css doesn't load correctly. If you go to http://ballard26.s3.amazonaws.com/stylesheet.css, it dow...
Unable to list owned images and running instances from Amazon Web Services using Zend Framework
I am using Zend Framework's library to manage EC2 instances and AMI. However I can't list the AMI's I own and can't list existing EC2 instances. $ec2Instance = new Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2_Instance($awsAccessKey, $awsSecretKey); $instances = $ec2Instance ->describe(); $ec2Instance ->describe() should list all instances but it is return...