When using external developers to help with EC2/S3 administration and development tasks what would be the normal protocol for sharing account information? I'm a little reluctant to give the Amazon account password away. If the developer has the access id and secret key, would he need a password? Also, what are the possible pitfalls of gi...
Hello everyone, I hope someone can help me answer this dilimma I'm having. I am getting ready to release my new software and its associated content files. Since the File size for the Full version is Huge, I cant use normal software delivery methods. The main download is 450MB and then add-on packs at around 250MB for each add-on produ...
One of the useful things about S3 for content storage is that a client can directly make a direct HTTP request to download the object. For instance, this is how Twitter serve up avatar images. SimpleDB provides an HTTP interface to data. Rather than having to write a proxy that sits inbetween SimpleDB and the client, is it possible for ...
I used to be able to do 13 digit ISBN lookups, but now I can't. Here is the query for the 13-digit ISBN: 9780073380957. http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?AWSAccessKeyId=&ItemId=9780073380957&Operation=ItemLookup&ResponseGroup=Images%2CItemAttributes&Service=AWSECommerceService&Timestamp=2009-12-16T14%3A30%3A02Z&...
Hello. I am planning to deploy my web application (ASP.Net based) on the Amazon EC2 and the persistence on Amazon RDS. I have a 'gut feeling' that at least my session store (again on RDS) should be separate from the rest of the application database. This is because I am expecting high activity in the session store. RDS supports the abili...
Hi - I'm looking to deploy a django app on AWS (since I have some credit coupon) and am looking for a good place to read about it - mostly b/c I never used it before. thanks ...
Hi, I have setup an amazon EC2 intance using the command line tools. I have create a key pair for it etc. and it is up and running. I try to SSH into it using the following (I am running bash in Snow Leopard): $ ssh -i ec2-keypair [email protected] Snow Leopard pops up a box saying "Enter you password for ...
We have a domain CNAME pointing to our Amazon load balancer, however the URL's that Amazon provides are longer than 32 characters and one of our clients DNS providers limits CNAME's to 32 characters. Aside from moving to a diff DNS, any suggestions to get around this? HTTP redirect not an option for the URL either.... Cheers, Chad ...
Hi all - I can set up my EC2 instances so that certain users other than myself are allowed to SSH in. Is there anyway of achieving a similar situation with S3 in giving certain users access to buckets without revealing the Access ID and Secret keys? Thanks for any help. Max. ...
I have a cakePHP app with my DB servers configured in the app/config/ database.php file. However, I need to use the get_cfg_var ('mysql.default_host') to get the host name because the client does not want the name hardcoded. I would appreciate a quick response regarding where the changes need to be made. Thanks ...
I'm about to start a mapreduce project which will run on AWS and I am presented with a choice, to either use Java or C++. I understand that writing the project in Java would make more functionality available to me, however C++ could pull it off too, through Hadoop Streaming. Mind you, I have little background in either language. A simi...
Hi. I am trying to create a mapper only job via AWS (a streaming job). The reducer field is required, so I am giving a dummy executable, and adding -jobconf mapred.map.tasks=0 to the Extra Args box. In the hadoop environment (version 0.20) I've installed, no reducer jobs will launch, but in AWS the dummy executable launches and fails. ...
I need to generate HMAC-SHA256 signatures for the Amazon web services API. The old DCPcrypt library has sha256 routines but does not do HMAC signing. Anyone know of a free hashing library I could use? ...
I've got an app built using asp.net mvc and deployed over 2 Amazon EC2 instances. I'm using forms authentication to authenticate users. I simply make a quick look up on the given username and password and if I found a match I set an authentication cookie, like so: if(_repository.Login(username, password)) FormsAuthentication.SetAut...
I am writing a script using boto and Python to automatically launch an Amazon EC2 instance and interact with it using SSH. Everything works fine except that every time I establish the connection, SSH prompts me to confirm the authenticity of the host like this: The authenticity of host 'ec2-174-129-121-25.compute-1.amazonaws.com (174.12...
I'm currently spec'ing out a solution running on EC2. Setting up web servers, utilizing S3, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, etc have been straightforward enough. Using Elastic Load Balancers for HA cross Availability Zone for our web servers has also been straightforward. I would really like to have cross Region Availability in addition to cr...
http://www.dscredstorm.com/getisbninfo.aspx I'm trying to use Amazon's api. I downloaded their example code, which is a C# windows form app but I figured it should work for a C# website also, correct? SignedRequestHelper.cs is a file that appears to have some functionality that I need to send a signed request. It's namespace is Amazon...
Am a beginner of S3 AWS SDK. and getting problem in my project. I want to get uploaded or downloaded size of file which is currently uploaded. Actually the functionality of my application is that it will upload contents directly from client browser to Amazon S3. But if transfer of data interrupted and if exception is raised then i cant ...
I've found the method set_log in the documentation, I just can't figure out the syntax to call it. Here's what I tried: require 'ruby-aws' Amazon::Util::Logging.set_log('my.log') NoMethodError: undefined method `set_log' for Amazon::Util::Logging:Module ...
Hi I'm creating a application where the user will type in the name of a video game and a query will be sent to a servelt. I want this query to search the amazon product database and if the game is found i want to grab the information such as the name, publisher, platform genre etc and add this information to my database. Just like price...