I'm working on a small project to get myself acquainted with the Amazon web services. I'm trying to make a simple web application; when a button is pressed a mapreduce job is launched and the output is returned on the browser. What would be the best way to do this? Also, is there a way to launch an amazon elastic mapreduce job via the co...
I'm working on a system conceptually similar to an URL shortener like bit.ly -- a client sends in a bit of data and the system returns a very short URL to represent it (a base URL + a token representing the data). Ideally, it would start with the shortest token possible (maybe 4 or 5 alphanumeric characters) and move on to longer tokens ...
Hi. How would I go about uploading files to S3 from a Google Web Toolkit page? Ideally, it would all be done asynchronously, allowing me to display a progress bar. ...
hi all every once in a while i read/hear about AWS and now i tried reading the docs. But such docs seem to be written for people who already know which AWS they need to use and only search for how it can be used. So, for myself, to understand AWS better i try to sketch a hypothetical Webapplication with a few questions. The apps purpo...
I want to offer ready-to-deploy Public Ubuntu Lucid AMIs on Amazon Web Services EC2. As these AMIs use open-source web apps, I want to pre-configure apache mod_ssl and force all traffic over https. That's easy enough. I'm interested in a sanity check: just how insecure would it be to deploy without a first run script that generates a n...
I'm using Zend, a PHP library, to work with Amazon EC2. I have created my own image (AMI), it's a x84_64 machine (i.e. not the default i386 architecture). I want to launch it programmatically from PHP using Zend. Zend provides a 'run' method to run an AMI (cf. http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.service.amazon.ec2.instance.html). H...
Hi, Does anyone know what service you can use to access amazon merchant (Seller) details. Say for example: I want to view all the orders I have received on my own site, or I want to add the ability to list products to sell on amazon.com using my own site (something similar to what auctivia.com is to ebay). What I basically want to do...
Hi folks, I'm uploading photos, via PHP, to an Amazon S3 bucket. Everything is working great so far. My question is about x-amz-meta. Would I use x-amz-meta key/value pairs to store data like the User ID of the person uploading and their account type (free, premium, etc.)? Or do I store this as regular metadata, not prefixed with x-amz...
If I create SQS queue from an EC2 instance without specifying the region in the API call, in which region will the queue be created. When I run boto.sqs.regions() I get 4 regions from an NON ec2 machine, I get [RegionInfo:us-east-1, RegionInfo:eu-west-1, RegionInfo:us-west-1, RegionInfo:ap-southeast-1] from a EC2 machine in the As...
I'm unclear as to what benefits I get from EBS vs. instance-store for my instances on Amazon EC2. If anything, it seems that EBS is way more useful (stop, start, persist + better speed) at relatively little difference in cost...? Also, is there any metric as to whether more people are using EBS now that it's available, considering it is ...
I'm looking to write a Java (Groovy actually) web application that will need to talk to both AWS and Eucalyptus clouds for both compute and storage. So we're looking for a Java library that can talk to both. I know that Eucalyptus is supposed to be AWS API compatible so anything that talks to AWS should be able to talk to Eucalyptus bu...
Hi, I want to develop an application which could display items from amazon to user and if user want to buy them. He can do so from my app only. Is there a way to do this? Any help would be appreciated. ...
Are there any API's that have up-to-date pricing on Amazon Web Services? Something that can be queried, for example, for the latest price S3 for a given region, or EC2, etc. thanks ...
Is there a way to look up the various editions of a book based on its ISBN using the Amazon Product Advertising API? And, more generally, what are the various choices for looking up edition metadata on a book? Only one I know of for sure is the xISBN api from worldcat On my site we have a "more editions" button for when people search ...
I've downloaded the php library for amazon flexible payments. I am following the included instructions and ran CBUISingleUsePipelineSample.php, as the docs say. The instructions say "The return URL will include expiry, tokenID, status, callerReference and signature parameters." When I run that file, expiry & tokenID are missing from my...
Is it possible to have multiple users to manage an Amazon EC2 environment? I want to give access to several additional people to create machines on my existing billing account. ...
Hi, I'm accessing the Amazon AWS API using the ruby-aaws gem, but without going to much into details of the API or the gem, I think my problem is more of a general nature. When I query the API I will end up with "object array", let's call it item, containing the API response. I can easily access the data in the array, e.g. puts item.it...
I have lots of experience running my app on Amazon EC2. It requires a low-end server, and I currently pay approx $90/month for the server (yes, I know I don't really need the scalability, but I still use EC2). I was wondering about the benefits of moving this app, which is purely .NET, to Microsoft Azure. Are there any experiences with: ...
I have a local filesystem image that I want to transfer to an Amazon EBS volume and boot as an EC2 micro instance. The instance should have the EBS volume as it's root filesystem - and I will be booting the instance with the Amazon PV-GRUB "kernels". I have used ec2-bundle-image to create a bundle from the image, and I have used ec2-upl...
I need to buy music from Amazon Music or some other online store from my web service. I can't found API for this functional on Amazon web services and also i can't found it in iTunes Store. Does anybody know solution for this task? ...