Amazon Mechanical Turk is a mass-micro outsourcing API, where you can get lots's of small simple tasks (e.g."Is there a shop in this image") done relatively cheaply (e.g. 0.10 U$ per image). Amazon seems to assume that this service is mostly of interest to US companies. This results in difficulties if you want to use the service (as an ...
After a down vote, I humbly realized that my post was an enormous rant. So I've edited it and summed this down to just the question I'd really like to know. I apologize for my brash comments prior to this edit ;) It seems that the only tutorials out there talking about using Amazon's SimpleDB in a rails site are using AWSDBProxy... Per...
Does Amazon FPS allow me (in the US) to take credit card payments from outside the US without creating an Amazon account? ...
Do you know if there is a way of using Amazon SimpleDB with NHibernate? LightSpeed seems to be compatible. ...
Say, you have a Rails (or actually any other kind) application running on Amazon EC2, and whenever you perform some maintenance, which might include shutting down or re-creating your instances, you might want S3 to display your "maintenance mode" page instead of your app. So, basically, that might mean: Uploading text saying when you'...
I'm trying to retrieve HTTP HEAD information from a S3 resource using Python. Unfortunately the response always returns a 403 error. I am using code that was suggested here but unfortunately this does not work for S3 requests. Here is the code (host and key details omitted): >>> import httplib >>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.myb...
While the post @ http://highscalability.com/amazon-architecture explains Amazon's architecture in general, I am interested in knowing how Amazon S3 is implemented. Some of my guesses are A distributed file system like HDFS http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/hdfs_design.html A non relational persistent DB like CouchDB http://co...
In Amazon ec2, how frequently will an instance of a running machine crash? Has anyone experienced this? ...
Can anyone point me to a good primer on how a large scale commercial website like amazon.com is set up? Most importantly, I'd like to know about how the databases are set up. Do they have a distributed set of databases to balance the load, that all sends updates to one 'master' database, etc.? Doesn't have to be the inside dope(although ...
What information have you been able to gather regarding how do the amazon web services work? What hardware do they use What web server What Operating System What storage for AWS What virtualization software for EC2/EBS What software for they distributed firewall for EC2 Physical location of their data centers. I like their services v...
How can I kill all my instances from the command line. Is there a command for this or must I script it? ...
I'm using the amazon web services and I was just wondering if anyone knew how I could return unavailable items, I don't exactly wish to purchase them, but to collect statistical information out of them so getting items that aren't available would make my searches much broader. $sc = new SoapClient('http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSEComm...
There is a similar question here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/525992/resize-iframe-height-according-to-content-height-in-it. But it is not about Amazon aStore. When you create an Amazon aStore, you get a code like: < iframe src="http://astore.amazon.com/AMAZON_SOME_STORE_HERE-20" width="90%" height="4000" frameborder="0" ...
I thought that I could use SimpleDB to take care of the most challenging area of my application (as far as scaling goes) - twitter-like comments, but with location on top - till the point when I sat down to actually start implementing it with SDB. First thing, SDB has a 1000 bytes limitation per attribute value, which is not enough even...
What is the update interval of Amazon affiliate reports system ? My account seems to update only once in 24 hours. ...
How can I generate an Amazon affiliates link (with my Tracking ID) from a regular link without using Amazon online tools ? ...
Is it possible to find all the new Amazon products in a specific category using the Amazon Associates Web Service or any other tool ? I tried also the RSS which give only 10 results and it is updated only once in few months. Do you have any other ideas ? ...
Has anyone used Amazon AIM or ENS APIs? I'm having trouble finding documentation. I'd like to implement it into my rails application. ...
We are experimenting with hosting a silverlight application on Amazons EC2. I can get it to serve up the .xap file, but I'm having some trouble with using the webservices that the silverlight application requires. Usually I would add a service reference in visual studio and enter the URL for the webservice, something like http://url.co...
When you submit a feed of products to Amazon it will return a error report that will contain suggestions for products that were not matched, like so: 18 998 8042 Error "SKU '998'ASIN B0001FSZ6K 'item_name' Merchant value: 'Promax Nutrition Promax Bar - Mocha Blast' Amazon catalog value: 'Promax Bars, Mocha Blast 12 bars'. ASIN B000...