I've been tinkering with Yahoo Pipes and the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS) SDK to retrieve my wishlist. The problem is that although I can get all the items on my wishlist just fine, it seems to include items that I've deleted too. Has anyone else used this API and noticed this? Is there a way around it? UPDATE: Requested additiona...
Is there a way to distinguish between sets of EC2 instances? My use case is that I have a bunch of web tier machines and a bunch of search tier machines; currently the only way to track what each instance is doing is in a roll-your-own asset directory, like LDAP or a database. Ideally, I'd like to be able to determine the role of a mac...
What are the valid instanceState's for the AmazonEC2 API? It doesn't seem to be defined in the current API doc. Google doesn't turn up much. So far I know about: 0: pending 16: running 32: shutting-down 48: terminated but I'm pretty sure I've seen an error state before. Thanks! ...
For all operation with Amazon services(S3, EC2, SimpleDB) You need to sign all resquest with HMAC-SHA-1 Signature(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC , http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSFWS/latest/DeveloperGuide/index.html?SummaryOfAuthentication.html). I'm working under asp.net backend and there is no problems. Problem is in the iPhon...
Amazon Mechanical Turk is a mass-micro outsourcing API, where you can get lots's of small simple tasks (e.g."Is there a shop in this image") done relatively cheaply (e.g. 0.10 U$ per image). Amazon seems to assume that this service is mostly of interest to US companies. This results in difficulties if you want to use the service (as an ...
After a down vote, I humbly realized that my post was an enormous rant. So I've edited it and summed this down to just the question I'd really like to know. I apologize for my brash comments prior to this edit ;) It seems that the only tutorials out there talking about using Amazon's SimpleDB in a rails site are using AWSDBProxy... Per...
I'm quite impressed with Amazon's EC2 and EBS services. I wanted to know if it is possible to grow an EBS Volume. For example: If I have a 50 GB volume and I start to run out of space, can I bump it up to 100 GB when required? ...
I'm using Amazon S3 to host images. The S3 bucket is private, so I generate a temporary URL (using Right AWS) with a 5-minute expiry to allow the image to be rendered. The URL looks like this (note: URL below will not work): https://mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com:443/attachments%2F30%2Fsmall.png?Signature=J%2BXzQd95myCNv0Re8arMhuTFSvk%3D&...
Howdy, I've got two different apps that I am hosting (well the second one is about to go up) on Amazon EC2. How can I work with both accounts at the command line (Mac OS X) but keep the EC2 keys & certificates separate? Do I need to change my environment variables before each ec2-* command? Would using an alias and having it to the ...
What are your experiences using Amazons EBS snapshot features for MySql hot backups. I have a database running a batch processing job in ec2. I backup with EBS snapshot. So far the backups looks consistent. But I am afraid they "will stop being consistent as soon as I stop checking" (Uncertainty principle). What are your experiences wi...
I have created an amazon EBS volume using my amazon credentials. My customer gave me his customer credentials so that I create for him an EC2 machinge with the disk I created attached, how do I do that? I'm using the web console, if it matters ================== Let me add that when I do create volume in my customer's account and put ...
I'm struggling to find any good library for Amazon FPS for Ruby language, and so I'm looking for a suggestion on a good explanation (other than amazon docs) or perhaps a tutorial to get me up to speed quickly with Amazon FPS. What I am looking for is information on how to set up user registration form and do recurring payments which var...
What information have you been able to gather regarding how do the amazon web services work? What hardware do they use What web server What Operating System What storage for AWS What virtualization software for EC2/EBS What software for they distributed firewall for EC2 Physical location of their data centers. I like their services v...
How can I find out, from within an ec2 machine (user root) what is my instance id? ...
When I reboot an EC2 instance, do I get the initial image again, or is the state of the hard disk before the reboot kept? And what happens with billing, does the hour start again, or do I continue with the fraction of the hour I was in when I rebooted? ...
How can I kill all my instances from the command line. Is there a command for this or must I script it? ...
I have a job processing architecture based on AWS that requires EC2 instances query S3 and SQS. In order for running instances to have access to the API the credentials are sent as user data (-f) in the form of a base64 encoded shell script. For example: $ cat ec2.sh ... export AWS_ACCOUNT_NUMBER='1111-1111-1111' export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_...
I'm using the amazon web services and I was just wondering if anyone knew how I could return unavailable items, I don't exactly wish to purchase them, but to collect statistical information out of them so getting items that aren't available would make my searches much broader. $sc = new SoapClient('http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSEComm...
I spent the day experimenting with AWS for the first time. I've got an EC2 instance running and I mounted an Elastic Block Store (EBS) to keep the MySQL databases. Does it make sense to also put my web application files on the EBS, or should I just deploy them to the normal EC2 file system? ...
I thought that I could use SimpleDB to take care of the most challenging area of my application (as far as scaling goes) - twitter-like comments, but with location on top - till the point when I sat down to actually start implementing it with SDB. First thing, SDB has a 1000 bytes limitation per attribute value, which is not enough even...