This has to do w/ Amazon's Flexible Payment service: In order to try to save transactions costs I would like to aggregate all of my customers' payments & then settle them in a single pay request at the end of the day. Is this possible? For instance, in the same day, Bob buys something for $25, Susan buys something for $30, Tim buys so...
Hello I have an AWS EC2 account and I am running an instance that serves as a web host for my PHP website... This is a private website that has no UI but only URLs to be requested by my other software to get some response from the server... I want the requests (that I send to the server) to be secured so I want to use https instead of ...
According to the AWS Import API docs the request looks like this: POST / HTTP/1.1 content-type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8 host: https://importexport.amazonaws.com content-length:356 Operation=CreateJob&Manifest=manifestVersion%3A%202.0%0Abucket%3A%20myBucket %0AaccessKeyId%3A%2013Q2729HYRYMYRB3FK02%0AreturnAddress...
I am using the ELB command line tools available form AMAZON. Is there a way of finding out the instances attached to a particular Elastic Load Balancer,(ELB) ...
I have an iPhone app that must use external cloud db to sync data between users. Data is structured, so BLOB storage will not do. So far the only alternatives that i see are Amazon SimpleDB MS Azure Storage (Tables). I didnt get if i could use just Storage and no Azure instances. Are there any other similar providers? ...
Is there any way for me to identify cloud computing usage by region -- whereby cloud computing refers primarily to the use Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. I have a product that is somewhat regional in nature, and I don't want to waste time customizing the solution to countries which are unlikely to bring much return in $$$. I can only p...
I am new to Amazon EC2 and just pulled down some Unix based image (I think it was an IBM image). It launched fine, worked great and was able to be stopped and snapshotted, all through the console. However, when I replicated the snapshot and launched a new image, albeit of a smaller size, the new image came up with errors. Is there someth...
Has anyone used the createHITType function in the Perl Amazon Mechanical Turk SDK to add Notification properties to their HIT? I've managed to get it all working. I can grab the balance from both my sandbox account and the live system. I've successfully created new hits using the various techniques in the samples dir, but I need to enab...
I'm currently serving up static images to my site via Amazon Cloudfront and for some reason my images won't update when I try to overwrite them with an updated image. The old image continues to display. I've even tried deleting the entire images folder and uploading the newest ones without success. The only thing that works is renaming ...
I have a web app running on php and mysql. i have tested on my localhost and i know it works. if my platform has a url like myplatform.com, and users sign up, they automatically get a website like user1.myplatform.com or user2.myplatform.com, etc. Akin to blogger, wordpress or webs.com now if user1 decides to purchase a url from a do...
Hello, I have a database instance on RDS with 2 databases on it. Is there a good way using the RDS command line tools to copy the one database to the other? If not, what is the recommended way of doing it? Thanks in advanced. ...
Is there a Python library for interacting with Amazon MWS? I found Ruby, Perl, PHP, C#, and Java versions, but not Python. ...
Hey guys, tl;dr - Is there a robust S3 ACL management tool, possibly for use with CloudFront? I'm working on a personal private content distribution (via CloudFront) but obviously the AWS Console is severely lacking in this regard. I know there are a handful of S3 clients out there, but none of them really do much for advanced ACL. T...
Once you run out of space, is there easier way to increase the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) storage? ...
Hi, Is there any extension for chrome which is similar to Hybridfox or Elasticfox? Regards, Allahbaksh ...
I just changed my CSS image sprites to run from local to CloudFront and there's now a noticeable lag, even across pages and page reloads. Any ideas as to why this might be happening? ...
I have a barcode reader and bunch of books. For each of the books, I want to list the book name and the author in an Excel spreadsheet. My view is that some VBA code connecting to an Amazon web service would make this easier. My questions is - hasn't anyone done this before? Could you point me to the best example. ...
I'm failing at Google search today. Is there a page that lists geolocations of the various Amazon AWS server farms? I want to use this data to pick the appropriate farm for a client on a web app, CDN-style. (This isn't programming, but it's for the purpose of programming, and I thought it would be useful to have this question answered...
So its easy to get the Amazon EC2 region endpoints simply via an API call (DescribeRegions) But how do I do this with the SimpleDB API, there is no obvious (to me) call. (and the endpoints are different, so I can't just use the EC2 one's) Edit: Oh, I'm using the .NET API ...
I saw this query on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3743366/stopping-snapshotting-and-restarting-ebs-server Now I am confused... I have also encountered an inconsistent state when taking EC2 snapshots of my app. So is this the required process when I want a snapshot of a Unix/Linux/Windows image: Stop the image Take a snapshot ...