I'm trying to build a music search using Amazon mp3 widgets to play each result. Instead of building a page full of these widgets, I'd like the user to click the album art and then the widget would load. The code that I have looks like this: function loadPlayer(asin) { var amzn_wdgt={widget:'MP3Clips'}; amzn_wdgt.tag='widgetsamazon-20'...
I have 17 gigs of images directly on my server that I would like to move to S3. First I tried to scp them and it it took roughly 9 hours, so that doesn't seem to be a good idea to use those because other people have probably touched those images since then. I'm thinking something similar to rsync, but rsync wouldn't work because I can't ...
This seems like an excellent script but lacks a key part to its installation I can't seem to figure out. Maybe someone out there can help a newb. What I've done so far : Installed the s3sync package. Downloaded the s3 certificate Downloaded the s3 ssl package ran it with sh ssh.certs.shar Edited the s3conf.yml file to have the correc...
Hey there - does anyone know what I need to do to set up variable bit-rate streaming with Amazon Cloudfront. I am not using JWPlayer but have built my own flash player. What calls to I need to make to Cloudfront and how do I make them? Or is it all handled on the client side? I am using FMS 3.5. Any help greatly appreciated. ...
Hello, after many hours of tinkering and reading the whole internet several times I just can't figure out how to sign requests for use with the Product Advertising API. So far I managed to generate a client from the provided WSDL file. I used a tutorial by Amazon for this. You can find it here: Tutorial for generating the web service ...
Has anyone had any success with using Mechnical Turk with large volumes of jobs (100,000 jobs per day+)? We are looking at the possibility of using MT to analyse the sentiment of a large (ongoing) volume of content, but have concerns about the feasibility of doing so, and if there would be enough 'manpower' to turn it around quickly enou...
Hi, We are having some troubles when many people is visiting our site at the same time. We are using Symfony 1.2.7 + Memcached on Amazon Web Services. We have 2 instances running Apache with load balancing. Database is MySQL and it is running in a separate instance that stores de web files (the other instances are mounting these files u...
Googling reveals several Python interfaces to Amazon AWS. Which are the most popular, feature-complete, etc? ...
I have a classifieds website (with geoclassifieds basic) and would like to integrate amazon results into the search results. What's a simple way to to do this? ...
Hi All, I'm trying to integrate Amazon Product API into my website and came across several posts that helped me construct the URL. Only problem is when I execute the code below I get the following error. Am I doing something wrong? Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable...
I am storing many images in Amazon S3, using a ruby lib (http://amazon.rubyforge.org/) I don't care the photos older than 1 week, then to free the space in S3 I have to delete those photos. I know there is a method to delete the object in a certain bucket: S3Object.delete 'photo-1.jpg', 'photos' Is there a way to automatically delet...
Say I have a mturk task such as follows: 1) Find a website about lawn chairs. 2) Send me the URL. And I want 500 mturkers to work on this. How do I ensure that they give me unique URLs that no one else has submitted? Is there some easy way to accomplish this? ...
I'm uploading mov files selected with the uiimagepickercontroller to my amazon s3 bucket but when I then try to play them with the media player framework, I'm told it's an invalid format. Here's one: http://s3.amazonaws.com/irovr/users/9/92f7acd7-31b5-437c-8a30-16630e869d29/DEEDBFAE-8D41-4B52-B223-AA03B3A25491.mov ...
Hi, I am using Amazon S3 service to upload different directories (and the files inside) to different buckets (directory -> bucket). I am coding in Ruby, and I am using the lib http://amazon.rubyforge.org. The files are small (about 20KB). I'd like to upload the directories in parallel (using many threads) but I have to use synchronize ...
I was given AWS Console access to an account with 2 instances running that I cannot shut down (in production). I would however like to gain SSH access to these instances, is it possible to create a new Keypair and apply it to the instances so I can SSH in? Obtaining the exisiting pem file for the keypair the instances were created under ...
With Amazon S3, can I stop a query-string-authorized download that is in progress? Are there other file download services that provide such a feature? ...
Hi all, Attempting to use the amazon API to obtain product data and currently failing miserably. Getting the following error: (The HTTP request was forbidden with client authentication scheme 'Anonymous'.) Anyone care to point me in the right direction or provide a link to good example of the API usage? Dim itemRequest As New ItemSe...
How can programmatically monitor the bandwidth of an object in AWS S3 service? I would like to do this to prevent excessive bandwidth usage by clients who are using our services and costing us more than we can afford. We like to limit 1TB bandwidth for each object. ...
I've got a script that calls two functions, A and B, from the same class. A creates an Amazon virtual server and B destroys one, both via shell_exec()'s of Amazon's command line tools. The script, doActions.php, pulls actions from a queue. If the action is "create" it creates an instance; when the action is "destroy" it kills one. The s...
We're considering Amazon EC2 for a project. I'd appreciate some recommendations for books or other learning resource that were essential, practical, and helped you have an easier time with this platform. ...