amazon-web-services

Best options for building a web app with SimpleDB as a data source?

I have seen PHP libraries for SimpleDB but nothing too interesting... are there any best practices or frameworks for this or should I just go at it? Thanks! ...

Using Amazon Web Services. There seems to be an EBS/ec2-attach-volume fail. Anyone else having this problem?

Here is a transcript of my failed attempt to attach an EBS volume to an instance: user $ ec2-attach-volume vol-7fba5ece --instance i-436ec703 --device /mnt/sdh ATTACHMENT vol-7fba5ece i-436ec703 /mnt/sdh attaching 2009-05-22T19:58:15+0000 I take this as a success message, no? user $ ec2-describe-volumes [....

Is Amazon SQS the right choice here? Rails performance issue.

I'm close to releasing a rails app with the common networking features (messaging, wall, etc.). I want to use some kind of background processing (most likely Bj) for off-loading tasks from the request/response cycle. This would happen when users invite friends via email to join and for email notifications. I'm not sure if I should just...

Amazon-ecs how to get the product's top level category?

I'm using the amazon-ecs gem to get product details from Amazon, using the itemlookup function (passing the ASIN). While I'm able to get all product details from this function, I'm not sure how to get the product's top level category - for example, if I have a children's book, I want the category as 'book' not fiction or children's book...

Should I host Website and REST API on the same server or split ?

I have a web application that consists of Website and REST API. Should I host them on the same server or should I host them on different servers? By "server" I mean a server cluster - several servers behind load balancer. API is mostly inbound traffic, website - mostly outbound. If it matters - hosted on Rackspace and/or AWS. Here is...

Are all clouds (such as AWS) still too "public" for internal corporate use?

We use AWS as a sort of developer playground --- turning on a server to test app deployment, and execution with a variety of non production data, and then turning it off again. We also use AWS as a host for our TFS. (because somehow our source code "isn't production data" All in all it's been great, and I would recommend it for corpora...

S3 GET without Signing (Cleartext possible?)

Is there a way to GET a object from Amazon S3 by sending the cleartext Accesskey:Secret instead of signing/HMAC? ...

Django -- I have a small app ready, Should I go on private VPS or Google App Engine?

Hi, I have my first app, not that big, but it is the first step. (next big one on the way) Now if I want to put it on my own Linode VPS, I have to configure mod_python or mod_wsgi, as well as memcache, Ngix, mySQL or Postgresql, etc. to make it work. If I put it GAE, All I have to do is convert the models to use GAE's API. What I like...

PHP or Ruby on Rails for interactive community site?

I consider myself as an entrepreneur with basic programming skills. My main experience is with PHP, but mostly as a code breaker- meaning being able to figure out the basics and manipulate the code to my needs. Recently took up studying RoR and it seems easy to understand. I will be putting together some resources to build a niche socia...

AWS SimpleDB

I am in the process of building an mobile application (iPhone/Android) and want to store the application data onto Amazon's SimpleDB, because we do not want to host our own server to provide these services. I've been going through all of the documentation and the maximum storage size of element values is 1024 bytes. In my case we need...

What Are Good, Advanced Tools For Managing EC2?

I'm looking to manage a system (or preferably multiple systems) of machines on EC2, and at present the only way I can see doing that in a reasonable way is to extend the Typica library and build a control panel that launches, configures, and checks in on machines for me. I don't expect there to be any prefabricated solutions to exactly ...

Asynchronous Callback method is never called to give results from web service from Silverlight

I'm calling off asynchronously to a web service (Amazon Web Services) from a Silverlight app and my callback method is never actually triggered after I start the asynchronous call. I've set up another web service proxy in a console app, and I'm able to make a synchronous call and get a response using the same arguments without any issue...

Good Amazon Simple Queue Service PHP Library

With all things being equal whats currently the more mature PHP library for Amazon Simple Queue Service? I'm looking for good Object Oriented PHP 5 code. What were your experiences on the library you choice? Any performance problems? I'm building a system that needs to handle handing off messages to an unlimited amount of worker processe...

where did the elasticfox add-in go?

I new development machine and I'm just getting it set up. I found the S3 organizer through the firefox add-in option, but I can't find the elastic fox --- where did it go? ...

Mechanical Turk tutorials or how-to guides

Hello, does anybody know of any tutorials/resources that discuss integrating Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Rails? (besides those resources that Amazon already provides) Thanks! ...

Deploying on EC2

This question is for anyone who has actually used Amazon EC2. I'm looking into what it would take to deploy a server there. It looks like I can start in VirtualBox, setup my server and then export the image using the provided ec2-tools. What gets tricky is if I actually want to make configuration changes to my running server, they will...

Downloading a Large Number of Files from S3

What's the Fastest way to get a large number of files (relatively small 10-50kB) from Amazon S3 from Python? (In the order of 200,000 - million files). At the moment I am using boto to generate Signed URLs, and using PyCURL to get the files one by one. Would some type of concurrency help? PyCurl.CurlMulti object? I am open to all s...

Image caching vs. image processing in PHP and S3

Hi guys! Here is the thing. Right now I have this e-commerce web site where people can send a lot of pictures for their products. All the images are stored at Amazon's S3. When we need a thumbnail or something, I check over S3 if there is one available. If not, I process one and send it to S3 and display it on the browser. Every differe...

Uploading to Amazon S3 Services from iPhone App

I am pulling my hair out on this one... I am using the ASIHTTPRequest (http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/) wrapper library for accessing Amazon S3 storage. I am able to connect just fine and grab a listing of buckets without any problems. My frustration is with trying to UPLOAD (PUT and/or POST) a new object (a photo) to an existing ...

How to send product data to Amazon.com?

Does anybody know how to use PHP to send product data to Amazon.com? I want to create a custom app that sends product data from an ecommerce website to Amazon (to list products on Amazon). I can't find any info on this. ...