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Using Uploadify to POST Directly to Amazon S3

Can anyone tell me how to use Uploadify to upload directly to Amazon S3? My code is as follows: $('#fileInput').uploadify({ 'fileDataName' : 'file', 'uploader' : 'uploadify.swf', 'script' : 'http://BUCKET-NAME-GOES-HERE.s3.amazonaws.com/', 'cancelImg' : 'cancel.png', 'method' : 'post', 'au...

Should I be concerned with bit flips on Amazon S3?

I've got some data that I want to save on Amazon S3. Some of this data is encrypted and some is compressed. Should I be worried about single bit flips? I know of the MD5 hash header that can be added. This (from my experience) will prevent flips in the most unreliable portion of the deal (network communication), however I'm still wonde...

Quantity in amazon cart?

Hi I'd like to change the quantity in an AWS order. I've used the form below and that works fine for adding 1 item to the cart, but when I try to change it to a quantity of 2 it says there are no items in my cart. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. <form method="GET" action="http://www.amazon.com/gp/aws/cart/add.html" id="Quantity"> <in...

Are there any Tools to Automate Migration from a Website to Amazon Webstore?

Hi guys, we have a current website which shows the product, shopping cart and the whole shebang. and we're trying to migrate to Amazon web store, not the Cloud computing architecture type but the basic html web store method. And based on the tools that i see is available on amazon web store, there seems to be a lot of html editing, exce...

How to hide Amazon webstore default toolbar with Prototype?

Hi Guys, after playing around this morning, i've found that there's this default chunk of html code in the amazon webstore which will add a toolbar on top of the page. the html looks like below: <td id="wba_logo_bg"> <table class="logo" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td align="left"></td> <td cl...

Amazon S3 POST upload (from iPhone)

A bit of background: I am building an iPhone app with a complementary server backend (written in Rails or possibly Sinatra, but probably not relevant for this discussion). Part of the functionality involves uploading pictures from the iPhone to the server. These ultimately get stored on S3, so in order to simplify the app and conserve ba...

How to get Amazon Seller Central orders programmatically?

We have been manually been keying Amazon orders into our system and would like to automate it. However, I can't seem to figure out how to go about it. Their documentation is barely there. There is: Amazon Inventory Management (AIM) API: That is supposed to manage orders and inventory Event Notification Service (ENS) API: Get order not...

Amazon Affiliate links on a website written by users

If my users link to amazon in their messages, I want to get commission on purchases. How do I do this? Do I have to learn Amazon web services or just register my website with Amazon Affiliate program? Thank you very much. ...

Moving Files To Amazon S3 While Keeping URLs

I'm in a bit of a pickle here. I currently have a website hosted in a shared hosting environment by a third party hosting provider. As such, I do not have root access to the IIS server that this website is on. I currently have a directory on the site, such as: mysite.com/myfiles The "myfiles" directory currently has a lot of files in ...

Downloading s3objects with a save as dialog box

I am using Amazon SDK. In my ASP.NET application, I am trying to directly stream an S3Object to a client, without loading it via my web server and then sending it to the client. ...

Availiable reducers in Elastic MapReduce

I hope I'm asking this in the right way. I'm learning my way around Elastic MapReduce and I've seen numerous references to the "Aggregate" reducer that can be used with "Streaming" job flows. In Amazon's "Introduction to Amazon Elastic MapReduce" PDF it states "Amazon Elastic MapReduce has a default reducer called aggregrate" What I wo...

Allowing additional users to access and EC2 instance

I have set up an Amazon EC2 instance and am able to SSH into it. Can anyone please tell me how I could allow additional users to SSH into this instance from a different location? Max. ...

Cocoa app - can I integrate Amazon Product search within my cocoa app

Happy new year every one. I have integrated Amazon Product Search using the widgets they provide within my website. I also want to integrate it within my cocoa app. Any idea how this can be done? Do they have an API/web service which we can use in the cocoa app? Thanks.. ...

How does Amazon.com function with a key-value datastore?

I have heard that Amazon uses a key-value data store - that it does not use a traditional relational normalized db. Speaking as someone who only has used the traditional approach, how does this work? Don't you need to do the following? select * from book where book_id = n Or a: select * from book where author_id = y How can you b...

is it possible to show download dialog box in case of file download if the file is located on amazon server

i am using amazon s3 service. now i want to show download dialog box in my asp.net application when user come on download page. i am using amazon sdk. ...

Amazon Product Search - What is the service URI?

Hi I am using the Amazon Product Search WSDL in an objective-c project. Since Objective-c does not have any direct support for SOAP, I cannot just use the wsdl and leave all the other processing for my app. I want to know what the service uri for the amazon product search is. This is the WSDL I am using http://soap.amazon.com/schemas2...

RoR: not able to connect paperclip to Amazon S3

Hi, I have decided to deploy my app to Heroku and I was following their tutorials. However, Im trying to connect to my Amazon S3 bucket with a paperclip plugin right now and Im getting this error: ArgumentError in Images#index Showing app/views/images/index.html.erb where line #19 raised: syntax error on line 0, col 39...

Which Facebook App Payment Provider has widest acceptance easiest to develop with?

Hi, Am looking at accepting payments on my facebook app. The service providers available are SpareChange Jambool Google Checkout Amazon FPS Paypal Does anyone have experience to share about using any of these? The pros and cons of each. Thanks in advance ...

Amazon EC2 High Availability Database Architecture

I'm currently spec'ing out a solution running on EC2. Setting up web servers, utilizing S3, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, etc have been straightforward enough. Using Elastic Load Balancers for HA cross Availability Zone for our web servers has also been straightforward. I would really like to have cross Region Availability in addition to cr...

manage amazon/cj affiliates with API?

Hi, I have a redirect.php?id=xyz page. The page redirects to an Amazon page with my affiliate link attached. I'd like to be able to see if and when someone buys using my referral, the id=xyz that I used to redirect them with. Is it possible to see the referring page? Thanks ...