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Most recently James has been excited to see the rise of web applications and services that provide compelling new tools and new ways of approaching old problems. While experimenting in this area he created JetS3t, an open source library and application suite that is the leading Java implementation available for Amazon's S3 data storage service.
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SDB Tool: A New Firefox Plugin for Amazon’s Simple DB
December 17 2008
A handy new graphical tool for working with the Amazon Simple DB service has been announced on the AWS Blog. SDB Tool is a Firefox plugin for querying and updating your Simple DB database domains. The tool is very functional, if a bit rough around the edges. The interface is a… read moreXMLBuilder : Easily build XML documents in Java
December 14 2008
I have long been irked by the difficulty of creating simple XML documents in Java code. While Java has excellent support for handling XML in general, if you just need to whip up a quick document — say, to interact with a web service API — you can quickly get… read moreDecember 10 2008
The eagle-eyed folks at RightScale have spotted a new EC2 feature guide document describing the long-anticipated release of Amazon EC2 Regions. In short, EC2 is now available in the EU region, with potentially more regions to follow. This is great news for EC2 users who are located in Europe, or who… read moreDecember 10 2008
Amazon’s DevPay service graduated recently from beta to general availability, which means that it is now easier for companies in the United States to build a business based on Amazon Web Services. DevPay allows you to sell your own applications based on Amazon’s storage (S3) and computing (EC2) services. You set… read moreSimpleDB Now Open to the Public, with Improvements
December 01 2008
Amazon’s SimpleDB online data storage and querying service is now in unlimited public beta, which means that you can sign up for the service and have your account activated immediately. Previously, new users had to wait an indeterminate amount of time until they were granted access to the limited beta.… read moreCloudFront: A CDN for Amazon’s Simple Storage Service
November 19 2008
Amazon has added a new service to their arsenal. CloudFront is a content delivery service that works closely with S3 to make public objects in your account available through a distribution network with edge locations in the US, Europe and Asia. CloudFront uses two techniques to deliver your data quickly. It… read moreEC2: Out of beta, adds an SLA and Windows!
October 24 2008
Amazon has announced a major update to EC2, its service that provides on-demand computing power. The service has graduated from “beta” to production level, which means that a Service Level Agreement is now available. If you experience uptime below 99.95% in a given month and you can provide supporting evidence,… read moreClean a PostgreSQL database directory
September 11 2008
After building a database using an ill-judged algorithm, I ended up with junk in the database that consumed 600MB of space in the Postgres data directory. Deleting the bad data did not free this space immediately, and I was too impatient to wait for the auto vacuuming to kick in.… read moreCode samples for new SimpleDB feature: QueryWithAttributes
September 07 2008
A couple of weeks ago, a new API operation was added to Amazon’s SimpleDB service: QueryWithAttributes. This operation makes it possible to retrieve all the attribute data for SimpleDB items that match a query. Previously, to retrieve item attributes it was necessary to perform a Query request, then perform follow-up… read morePersistent Storage for EC2 with Elastic Block Store
August 24 2008
Amazon has announced a major new feature for their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service: Elastic Block Store (EBS) persistent storage volumes. EBS provides for block level storage space that can be attached to your EC2 instances, but which exists separately from these instances and persists even if an instance fails or… read moreCheaper Micropayments with FPS
August 24 2008
Earlier this month, Amazon changed the pricing structure for micropayment (aggregate) transactions performed with the Flexible Payments Service (FPS). FPS no longer charges a per-transaction fee for payments made from a prepaid or postpaid instrument. Fees are only changed when money is transferred into an instrument: to fund a prepaid… read moreAugust 10 2008
I am pleased to announce the release of JetS3t version 0.6.1, the newest version of my open source Java S3 library and application suite. This release includes bug fixes, application improvements, and support for some of the newest features of Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Highlights include: Support for copying, moving,… read moreSimpleDB: Finally Supports Sorting
July 29 2008
The latest version of Amazon’s SimpleDB service is available, and happily it now allows for sorting of query results. This highly-anticipated feature will make the service much more useful. Sorting still suffers from some limitations: you can only sort by a single attribute, you cannot perform sorting in queries that contain… read moreJuly 20 2008
As I post this, Amazon’s S3 and SQS services have both been down for hours. The latest updates to the service health dashboard are promising so things will hopefully be resolved soon, but this definitely isn’t a good sight: read moreSSH Tip: Redirect External Internet Traffic to a Dev Machine
July 20 2008
When developing a web site or application, you may sometimes need to expose the development version running inside your network to the public Internet. This can be necessary to test the communication between your application and an external service, such as PayPal. If you have secure shell access to a… read moreBuy Direct and Save
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