Amazon announced cloud hosting for Windows goes public beta today. EC2 Windows Pricing The pricing doesn't seem that cheap over colocation of your own server. Is this a revolutionary step towards the obvious future of hosting? Does anyone have any first hand experience using .net on an amazon virtual box? Cheapest pricing btw is 12...
I have a site that users upload images to. Those images are resized to various dimensions. I currently do that on my server, but was thinking of processing that on AWS or something similar. Is that a good idea? ...
If one wanted to build a web site around books, would it be better to use Amazon's web services API or the Google book API? All aspects of the question are welcome discussion fodder: technical ease, quality of metadata, API capabilities, language support, and so on. ...
It appears from their marketing literature that their new Windows with SQL option on EC2 has the SQL licensing costs bundled into their instance charges, but I'd hate to make assumptions. Has anyone here that has actually used a SQL instance on EC2 confirm/deny that the SQL Licensing costs are bundled into the instance chanrges from Am...
Hello all, We are building an application which stores data in an S3 bucket. However, we are having problems with the PutObject method. Here is the xml packet we are sending out: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xml...
We run a relatively high volume content site. Like most content sites, the majority of each page is relatively static. The articles rarely change, making them good candidates for some form of static/edge caching. There are two big problems, though. Secondary page elements (nav, recent content lists, etc) change pretty frequently, qui...
Since the Amazon MP3 store launched in the UK, I really want to write a downloader application for my phone so I can buy mp3s wherever I am and listen to them without hassle. However, first I need to reverse engineer the amazon .azn file format it supplies to the downloader app. The outer layer is obvious, it is simply base 64 encoded. H...
Our company is thinking about switching IT hosting strategy for the long run. We have been playing with some EC2 instances and we are interested in looking at a possible switch over cloud computing. Our only option is not amazon but is definitely one of the famous. I know that there are different instance options in terms of pricing...
Does anybody have a good ruby script for finding books (or other products) on Amazon using their API? ...
What types of Technologies does Amazon.com use Internally? Databases? Programing languages? Web technology? What technology is used to build ec2? s3? simpleDB? ...
There are so many services now, and a lot of search results about the topic talk about services that have been deprecated. I'm only doing this for the first time now. I have a little library app in C# that I want to use to query Amazon services to update book cover picture, ISBN, authors, etc. ...
If not, are there any fundamental limitations of the service that prevent one from being built? ...
Using Amazon's own client libraries (or alternatives), you can get listings of available pre-packaged AMIs, but the interface is definitely designed for scriptability, not readability. Elasticfox is better, but still doesn't make it easy to see what an AMI does, allow for user rating, etc. Is there a centralised place for me to easily f...
Is there a way to distinguish between sets of EC2 instances? My use case is that I have a bunch of web tier machines and a bunch of search tier machines; currently the only way to track what each instance is doing is in a roll-your-own asset directory, like LDAP or a database. Ideally, I'd like to be able to determine the role of a mac...
The following URL sends an ISBN number to Amazon and gets back a small bit of XML including author, title, and publisher. http://webservices.amazon.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&AWSAccessKeyId=13529AWJ97PJXSM2K1R2&Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=1590599659 However, I also want to get small, medium and large graphic a...
I am trying to use Amazon Web Services to query Artist and title information and receive album art back. Using C# I cannot find any examples that come even close to this. All of the examples online are outdated and do not work with AWS' newer version. ...
What are the valid instanceState's for the AmazonEC2 API? It doesn't seem to be defined in the current API doc. Google doesn't turn up much. So far I know about: 0: pending 16: running 32: shutting-down 48: terminated but I'm pretty sure I've seen an error state before. Thanks! ...
I'm looking for details of the cloud services popping up (eg. Amazon/Azure) and am wondering if they would be suitable for my app. My application basically has a single table database which is about 500GB. It grows by 3-5 GB/Day. I need to extract text data from it, about 1 million rows at a time, filtering on about 5 columns. This ext...
I have an Amazon EC2 instance using the Amazon-supplied Fedora 8 64-bit AMI, which I would like to upgrade to Fedora 10. I tried doing this by running "yum update" to upgrade the kernel and all packages. This seemed to work fine and I see that I now have the fc10 kernel installed, and all of my installed packages have also been updated...
I'm trying to play around with the Amazon web service in C#, but I can't find any resources to help me get started. I only want to retrieve artwork for movies, books and films but the only guides I can find are for enterprise level applications and services. Does anyone have an idea where to look? ...