Trying to understand S3...How do you limit access to a file you upload to S3? For example, from a web application, each user has files they can upload, but how do you limit access so only that user has access to that file? It seems like the query string authentication requires an expiration date and that won't work for me, is there ano...
I'm creating an application that will be hosted on amazon EC2 and a lot of the data that'll be saved is more document oriented (as well as saving tweets and such related to those documents). Right now I'm at a crossroads... should I use simpleDB or couchDB? Whats the pros/cons of using either? Should I just try both for a month and dec...
What is the easiest way to duplicate an entire Amazon S3 bucket to a bucket in a different account? Ideally, we'd like to duplicate the bucket nightly to a different account in Amazon's European data center for backup purposes. ...
Hi I want to associate a bucket in X account that is created by account Y Account Y has given read and write permissons to X on the bucket via the Email ID This was done using S3Fox - however when I log into X account I see no way to associate the external bucket. I tried entering the bucket name as usual but didnt work So I would l...
Does anyone know of a web service that would allow me to search up brand names for a variety of items? Basically, I want a suggest-style dropdown to match brand names as I begin to type. I am writing a household inventory program and I don't want to deal with someone mistyping a brand name and I also don't want to be storing every sing...
Hi, say you are hosting some .js and html pages up on some providers cloud storage option, amazon, mosso, etc... And I wan't to call a web service from javascript. I'm looking for some ideas on this. Thanks ...
I want to get the cover of a book form its ASIN through amazon API. I use "ItemLookup" operation but I only get the auther, manufacturer and the title. ie : Anna Gavalda J'Ai Lu Book Ensemble, C'Est Tout (French Edition) Any Idea ? ...
I have seen PHP libraries for SimpleDB but nothing too interesting... are there any best practices or frameworks for this or should I just go at it? Thanks! ...
I just have a link to a product page, at amazon. How do I get all the information (photo, price etc), in my ruby program, just using this link? ...
I'm using the amazon-ecs gem to get product details from Amazon, using the itemlookup function (passing the ASIN). While I'm able to get all product details from this function, I'm not sure how to get the product's top level category - for example, if I have a children's book, I want the category as 'book' not fiction or children's book...
Hi Guys, I have been trying all day in ASP.NET, and I am pulling my hair out (:D). Does anyone have code in c# to auto-download amazon affiliate reports - so I dont have to do this daily. Why amazon DONT have this functionality is beyond me ? Would really love any help anyone can provide? Thanks ...
I've been researching EC2 over at Amazon Web Services and the website notes: "You are also empowered to use our bundling tools to upload your own operating systems." Now I've been trying to find out if the only Windows version that is supported is Windows Server 2003 or if I would be able to virtualize an older version of Win...
Is there a way to GET a object from Amazon S3 by sending the cleartext Accesskey:Secret instead of signing/HMAC? ...
Hello, The link below was black with no underline, then black with an underline when hovered. This is what I wanted. Then I turned it into an Amazon Associate link, and now it's blue & underlined. I'm still using the same CSS as before (links2), so I don't understand why it changed format. How can I get the link to be black with no und...
Hi there, is there any way to update files stored on Amazon's CDN service? Seems like it won't take any update of a file we make (eg. removing the file and storing the new one with the same file name as before). Do I have to explicitly trigger an update process to remove the files from the edge servers to get the new file contents publi...
I'm trying to test file uploads on Mechanical Turk. I'm calling the GetFileUploadURL service and my query string looks something like this: Operation=GetFileUploadURL&AssignmentId=XXX&Signature=XXX&Version=2008-08-02&AWSAccessKeyId=XXX&Timestamp=2009-07-11T18%3A33%3A03-04%3A00&QuestionIdentifier=smiley&HITId=XXX&Service=AWSMechanicalT...
What I need is a powerful machine that will run my .NET code one hour a day. I can't use EC2 cause it will loose all my data on shutdown. I need a virtual PC that I can start at specific time, and this PC should start my .exe/service/whatever automatically. Can I ask Amazon MapReduce to start a Windows instance and execute my code? ...
How does Amazon get the "excerpt" "index" "front cover" "back cover" images or text for their books? Is this an automated process or are there people scanning all of the stuff in? ...
Does anybody know how to use PHP to send product data to Amazon.com? I want to create a custom app that sends product data from an ecommerce website to Amazon (to list products on Amazon). I can't find any info on this. ...
I am having a problem with encoding the hash for the Version 2 Signature of the ec2 API. Note my Version 1 Signature hashing works fine, but this is depreciated and I will need to move to version 2. So firstly here is the code that works... parameters is just a dictionary, what I have to do is simply sort the parameters by key and appe...