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Streaming with Amazon S3

My website (developed with ASP.NET) publishes news along with related JPEG files and flash videos. Right now it is hosted as dedicated server. But it is becoming hard to maintain backup and bandwidth. Can I host image files, video files and audio files in S3 bucket to resolve my issue? I have seen some articles related to this. But want...

Multiple users on Amazon EC2

Is it possible to have multiple users to manage an Amazon EC2 environment? I want to give access to several additional people to create machines on my existing billing account. ...

How to delay payment like Groupon with payment APIs (e.g, PayPal, Amazon)?

We need to mimic Groupon style payment, where users enter a credit card but aren't charged unless some trigger event occurs. (No, this isn't for another deal site.) Which payment APIs are best suited for this? PayPal? Amazon? We want to offload as much of the payment processing as possible. Ideally, we don't store credit card infor...

Using amazon's link-preview with use of own jQuery

When trying to use amazon's link-preview-script and loading the containing page, we get an error about the not-existing amazonPopoverTrigger-function. This happens only when on our page another jQuery is included (amazon delivers version 1.2.6 on their own). On a test page we found out that changing namespace of our JQuery with the noC...

How to generate Signature for the AWS Import API request ?

According to the AWS Import API docs the request looks like this: POST / HTTP/1.1 content-type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8 host: https://importexport.amazonaws.com content-length:356 Operation=CreateJob&Manifest=manifestVersion%3A%202.0%0Abucket%3A%20myBucket %0AaccessKeyId%3A%2013Q2729HYRYMYRB3FK02%0AreturnAddress...

How do I get the price of a specified Amazon product?

I'm listing a specific Amazon product for sale on a site. It's for sale from different Amazon locales, and I would like to list the correct price for these items on my site. I basically want to input the ASIN/ISBN number and get the price back. So the input would be $isan = "0123456789" And the output would be something like Buy from A...

Storage with Amazon S3

My website publishes news along with photos and videos. Right now my videos and images are being hosted on the web server only and they are occupying HDD space day by day. Adding or increasing HDD will not solve my issue as this will also create similar problem in future again. Here are some doubts to be clarified. Can I utilize Amazo...

Amazon S3/Cloudfront Image Overwriting Issue

I'm currently serving up static images to my site via Amazon Cloudfront and for some reason my images won't update when I try to overwrite them with an updated image. The old image continues to display. I've even tried deleting the entire images folder and uploading the newest ones without success. The only thing that works is renaming ...

ASP.NET on cloud server

My website is running quite well and serving lacks of pages on daily basis. We want to add one more web server to share load on server at heavy traffic times. Instead, can I go with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or any other cloud service as an alternative solution. In cloud server environment, need I to install multiple instances...

Amazon EC2 Elastic Load Balancer: Does its IP ever Change?

Does the ELB's IP Ever Change once setup, or will it always access instances from the same location during its lifetime no matter what might be going on with it behind the scenes at Amazon? ...

.NET engineers at Google, Amazon.com, etc.

This isn't a programming question per se, but I wanted to know: 1) Whether programmers who primarily specialize and code in a .NET environment get hired at Google, Amazon.com or other companies/startups which are mainly Java/MySql shops, 2) And whether there are any .NET teams at Google, Amazon.com or other startups on the East/West co...

How to set the permission on files at the time of Upload through Amazon s3 API

Is there any way to set the file permission at the time of uploading files through Amazon S3 API. In my current solution i am able to upload the file on my bucket but i can not view the file through the URL which is mentioned in the file properties section. It is opening when i am passing access keys in query string. Is there any setti...

Distributed system on Amazon EC2

Hi, How do I create a cluster of computers in Amazon EC2? What are the best practices for security? Can I access other machines in the local network? Thanks! ...

Removing response headers when accessing images from S3

Can we remove response headers when we are accessing images stored on Amazon S3? By default it is giving the following headers: x-amz-id-2: x-amz-request-id: Server: By default it is giving amazon related values for these headers. Is there any way to remove headers? ...

Amazon widget and SSL

Hi, I'm trying to embed an Amazon "Recommended Product" widget into a website. We use SSL across all pages on the site. Unfortunately, the Amazon widget by default is embedded using a simple IFrame and although the source for the IFrame can be https://, the images and links within the IFrame are always http:// IFrame sample code <ifr...

Javacript redirects to source code instead of loading

I'm trying to generate an Amazon ad that should look like this. <script type="text/javascript"><!-- amazon_ad_tag = "xxxxxxx"; amazon_ad_width = "160"; amazon_ad_height = "600";//--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/s/ads.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; Below are parts of my script that should achieve th...

Resize images hosted on Amazon S3 by using PHP

Possible Duplicate: Scaling images stored at S3 Before going to use Amazon S3 service, I want to know clearly as to the process of resizing images hosted on S3. My plan is - I want to move original image to S3, when user requests different sizes of thumbnails, I need to resize this and serve the image? What is the best soluti...

Amazon API ItemSearch Categories

Hi, I am using PHP PEAR Amazon package to retrieve products from the API, I can search for Books and DVDS at the moment, but I need all the categories, the problem is I cant find all the categories like e.g. home & garden. I am using below code to pull out Books: $result = $amazon->ItemSearch('Books', $options); I have tried replacin...

Which image hosting is better?

My website is having nearly 50 GB of images and growing gradually. I want to move these images to either S3 or another image hosting server. As an alternative solution, I want to keep these at another domain and want to serve images from there. In terms of performance and monthly server charges, which one will be good - S3 or dedicated...

Enabling AWS IAM Users access to shared bucket/objects

Is it possible to expose Amazon S3 account bucket (shared by ACL setings) to the users setup using new Amazon AIM API under different account? I'm able to create working IAM policy when related to the users and objects belonging to a single account. But as it seems this no longer works when two different accounts are involved - despite ...