amazon-web-services

Amazon api giving a 403 forbidden error.

I'm using Django to display a form which allows users to submit a book title which will make a request to Amazon to find the information about a book and return the results. However, i keep getting a 403 Forbidden error. I have no idea why. But the code is working, because whenever i use the script without Django, i receive the book inf...

use amazon aws-java-sdk-1.0.11 in android

i need a way to use aws-java-sdk-1.0.11 in android as when i try to import the jar files of third-party it give me an error delvik conversion error i want to use only ec2 ...

How to resolve pyaws Missing parameter problem?

I am using pyAWS wrapper for Amazon Web services. I want to show amazon search results on my web sites. For search I am using following codes. from pyaws import ecs ecs.setLicenseKey('Your-AWS-License-Key') books = ecs.ItemSearch('python', SearchIndex='Books') But it gives an error: u'ingParameter' ...

Alternatives to Amazon VPC

I currently have 20 Windows VMs that are running on Amazon EC2. There are LOTS of people in the company that need ad-hoc RDP access to each one of these boxes. Occassionally I also run Unix instances, which again tend to have a lot of ad-hoc SSH access from a large number of users. So now I have a problem... When these boxes run within ...

Compatibility layer above AWS & GAE?

Has anyone developed an abstraction layer above Amazon Web Services and the Google App Engine? It would be nice to be able to develop a system that could be migrated between either of those two platforms. I am interested in Python. ...

Block outbound traffic on EC2

Is ther a way to configure EC2 Security Groups so that they do not allow specific types of outbound connectivity (such as making HTTP requests to the public internet)? ...

Google App Engine vs Amazon Web Services

If you were a one developer startup, which service would you pick and why? If the goal is to get to market really fast. Would you go with GAE and build everything from scratch on Python, and one click deploy? or pick AWS, setup the server and db, use Rails, and do some admin work? ...

Deploying Projects on EC2 vs. Windows Azure

I've been working with Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services EC2 for a good many months now (almost getting to the years range) and I've seen something over and over that seems troubling. When I deploy a .NET build into Windows Azure into a web role (or service role) it takes usually 6-15 minute for it to startup. In AWS's EC2 it takes...

Amazon VPC testing

I sell a product that runs on Amazon EC2. A company now wants to purchase and install it within their perimeter... This also implies the use of a VPN connection to the EC2 datacenter. I want to test my product using Amazon VPN (VPC) before handing over the code. Must I change my code to make it work across VPC? If I run on Windows, the...

How to use Ruby CLI client to launch a JobFlow based on a JSON JobFlow description on Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

I have written a mapreduce application for hadoop and tested it at the command line on a single machine. My application uses two steps Map1 -> Reduce1 -> Map2 -> Reduce2 To run this job on aws mapreduce, I am following this link http://aws.amazon.com/articles/2294. But I am not clear how to use Ruby CLI client provide by amazon to do al...