Amazon Product Advertising API on Google App Engine
What is the easiest way to use the Amazon Product API on the Google App Engine? How do you work around the socket limitations of Google App Engine? ...
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Is there a (C#) library that will create feeds for Amazon Marketplace Web Services?
Does anyone know of a library out there (preferably in C#) that will take classes and generate XML or flat files suitable for feeds to Amazon Marketplace Web Services? In other words, I'd like to do something like this: var feed = new AmazonProductFeed(); var list = new AmazonProductList(); var product1 = new A...
How to get amazon and ebay product's price from description?
I have to show product's price from amazon and ebay. How can I get price? Please let me know the webservices which returns price from the product description. ...
Interesting questions related to lighttpd on Amazon EC2
This problem appeared today and I have no idea what is going on. Please share you ideas. I have 1 EC2 DB server (MYSQL + NFS File Sharing + Memcached). And I have 3 EC2 Web servers (lighttpd) where it will mounted the NFS folders on the DB server. Everything going smoothly for months but suddenly there is an interesting phenomenon. I...
How to scale MongoDB
I know that MongoDB can scale vertically. What about if I running out of disk? I am currently using EC2 with EBS. As you know, I have to assign EBS for a fixed size. What if the mongodb growth bigger than the EBS size? Do I have to create a larger EBS and Copy & Paste the files? Or shall we start more MongoDB instance and each connect...
Amazon API - is it possible to combine selling my own products, from my home, with other amazon products? (see desc)
This is what I would like -- a shopping area on my website. A user goes to this shopping page, they select the products they like, and they add them to shopping cart. When they are ready to check-out, they are transferred with all items in cart to Amazon to complete purchase. Here's the twist: I would like to sell some DVD's from my hom...
Amazon WebStore hide/disable/remove
Hey guys, I'm new to template editting. I'm trying to remove a table from the Amazon's WebStore template so i can start designing my own. Anyone out there know how I can go about hiding/disabling/removing/bypassing it? ...
Amazon Elastic MapReduce: Failed to create a job flow with a large number of instances
Hi, Every time I attempt to create a job flow with more than 20 instances, the creation fails. It works for me most of the time with less than 20 instances. Is there any limitation on the number of instances allowed for a job flow? By the way, I use ERM CLI: ruby elastic-mapreduce --create --alive --key-pair key --num-instances 30 ...
Creating Amazon EBS volumes using existing snapshot is creating problems
Hi All, I created a EBS volume, attached and mounted it on a EC2 instance. Created few sample text files in the mounted directory and took a snapshot from AWS console. Problem is when I create a new EBS volume using this snapshot and mount this new volume, I am not seeing the stored content (in snapshot). What can be the issue? Is my ...
Amazon EC2 - network issues
Hi, We are launching hadoop cluster on amazon ec2 and recently we are having network issues like master unable to connect to slave. We thought the reason is due to amazon throttling the network connections over a limit. So, we tried to establish a connection after a random delay from each slave node. But, that didn't help. Are there an...
Move IIS 6.0 Metabase
We are evaluating moving to the Amazon cloud. I want to move the IIS 6 metabase onto an EBS volume so that our domains configuration survives server termination. Is there a way to move the location of the IIS metabase to another drive, or will we just have to setup a regular backup with an automatic restoration when the server restarts? ...
How do I get jquery & mootools to play nice?
I've been using Mootools 1.2.4 as my JS framework of choice. I've added Checkout by Amazon to one of my pages, and they inject jQuery 1.2.6 into the page and messes up my dollar function (among other things). I have control over Mootools, but not jQuery. I would rather not rewrite my existing code to accomodate jQuery since Checkout by ...
Openfire scalability question XMPP Server
I would like to throw out my question again: do you guys know how well openfire scales? My users will be using the application to do normal chatting like msn no file transfer for now. We will be using Amazon's EC2 server to run the chat server we would like to support over 1 Million users in total and around 30-50K active users during ...
How do I use Amazon's new RRS for S3?
Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) is a new service from Amazon that is a bit cheaper than S3 because there is less redundancy. However, I can not find any information on how to specify that my data should use RRS rather than standard S3. In fact, there doesn't seem to be any website interface for an S3 services. If I log into AWS, there ...
Pointing Amazon's CloudFront at an A record not a CNAME
I've found instructions to point my domain's CNAME to Amazon's CloudFront service but ideally I would like to point the root name (A record name). For example, foo.com instead of www.foo.com. Is this possible? ...
amazon mp3 clips widget - how can I find the ASIN codes?
Hi Let's say I have a list of track titles and I want to get an Amazon ASIN code for each. Instead of searching manually, is there some API to use? Couldn't find anything on the Amazon MP3 Clips Widget pages (https://widgets.amazon.com/Amazon-MP3-Clips-Widget/) ... thanks Nicola ...
Which Amazon Web Service is right for facilitating payments when providing software-as-a-service?
I need to redesign my server solution for usage as software-as-a-service. Currently the user has to install the Manager service on one machine in the LAN and one or more Processor service instances on other machines. He then puts files to process into a select folder, the Manager service fetches the files, sends them to Processor instan...
How to configure memory based auto scaling on amazon aws?
hi guys, I am deploying a rails application on ec2 instances, where I want to configure auto scaling to be used with Elastic Load Balancer. On a particular threshold I want to spawn new instance. while configuring trigger for auto scaling group, we have options for CPUUtilization, Network or disk IO; but being a rails application, I wil...
Postgresql performance on EC2/EBS
What gives best performance for running PostgreSQL on EC2? EBS in RAID? PGData on /mnt? Do you have any preferences or experiences? Main "plus" for running pgsql on EBS is switching from one to another instances. Can this be the reason to be slower that /mnt partition? PS. im running postgresql 8.4 with datas/size about 50G, amazon ec2...
Help me copy data over the Amazon's EC2 and run a script.
I am a novice as far as using cloud computing but I get the concept and am pretty good at following instructions. I'd like to do some simulations on my data and each step takes several minutes. Given the hierarchy in my data, it takes several hours for each set. I'd like to speed this up by running it on Amazon's EC2 cloud. After readin...