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Community Code from the Amazon Web Services

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=47

Community Code from the Amazon Web Services Developer Connection. A collection of 45 code samples including “Processing Pipeline with Amazon S3, SQS, EC2, Ruby, Rails and ActiveMessaging,” “Amazon S3 Backup Solution (PHP/Perl),” “Erlaws—Amazon Web Services for Erlang” (Erland library for AWS), “Amazon S3 POST Example in Flash,” Amazon S3 POST Example in HTML,” “Another S3 Bash Interface,” “RightScale Ruby Library to Access Amazon EC2, S3 and SQS,” “ThreeSharp—A C# Library and Code for Amazon S3,” “Code Sample for the Economical Use of S3 with Ruby on Rails Article,” “s3-bash” (a collection of BASH scripts), “Alexa Web Information Plug-In for Microsoft Excel 2007,” “lifeguard—Automated Server Pool Management,” source code to “Introduction to AWS for C# Developers,” complete Rails application for “Introduction to AWS for Ruby Developers,” source code for “Introduction to AWS for PHP Developers,” sample code for “Running Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon EC2 and S3,” “Scale Up Your Silverlight Application Using Amazon S3,” “S3OSCache to Store Cached Data on Amazon S3,” “Turbocharge Your ASP.NET Site with Amazon S3 (VB.NET),” “boto—AWS for Python” (a Python library for AWS), “J2ME and J2SE Toolkit for Amazon S3,” “Turbocharge Your ASP.NET Site with Amazon S3,” “Simple Command-Line Access to Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3,” “Amazon S2 Bucket Browser with DIME Support in C#,” “s3sync and s3cmd in Ruby,” “JetS3t—An Open Source Java Toolkit for Amazon S3,” “What’s that Tune?” (mashup), “AWS::3S—A Ruby Library for the Amazon S3 REST API,” “Test Utility for Amazon S3 in PHP,” “Amazon S3 Bucket Browser in C#,” “Amazon S3 Signature Tester in JavaScript,” “Amazon S3 Key Management,” “S3Shell in Java,” “Amazon S3 Redirects Sample in Ruby,” “Amazon S3 Market Data Sample in Perl,” “Amazon S3 Library for REST in Ruby, “Amazon S3 Library for REST in Python,” “Amazon S3 Library for REST in Java,” “Amazon S3 Library for SOAP in Java,” “Amazon S3 Library for REST in C#,” “Amazon S3 Library for SOAP in C#,” “Amazon S3 Authentication Tool for Curl,” “Amazon S3 Pani Perl Wiki in Ruby,” and “Amazon S3 Sample in PHP.”

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/forumindex.jspa

Forums: Amazon Web Services Developer Connection. Topics include Amazon Associates Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Flexible Payments Service, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Alexa Site Thumbnail, Alexa Top Sites, Alexa Web Information Service, Alexa Web Search, Amazon DevPay, and Amazon SimpleDB.

Browse Amazon Web Services

http://www.amazon.com/web-services-aws-home-page/b/ref=sc_fe_l_2?ie=utf8&node=15763381&no=3435361&me=a36l942tsj2aja

Browse Amazon Web Services site. Lists the Amazon web services and provides a brief description of what each service does. The services listed include the Amazon Associates Web Service (A2S), the Amazon Elastic Compute (Amazon EC2), the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the Amazon SimpleDB, the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), the Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), the Alexa Site Thumbnail, the Alexa Top Sites, the Alexa Web Information Service and the Alexa Web Search. Links are provided to the information page for each service.

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection site. Online home for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer community. Resources include links to resource centers for Amazon Associates Web Services, Amazon DevPay, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Flexible Payments Service, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service, the Alexa Site Thumbnail, Alexa Top Sites, Alexa Web Information Service, Alexa Web Search, C#, Java, PHP. Ruby, and Submit a Resource; discussion forums including the developer Connection, Amazon Web services, Discussion in other languages and other topics; and a Solutions catalog including Solutions For ..., and Browse by Service.

Build an Infinitely Scalable Infrastructure

http://highscalability.com/build-infinitely-scalable-infrastructure-100-using-amazon-services

Article: "Build an Infinitely Scalable Infrastructure for $100 Using Amazon Services," by Todd Hoff. Discusses why use external services?, Amazon ECS (E-Commerce service), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service), Amazon EC2 (grid service), the GigaVox Media example web-scale architecture, and lessons learned.

AWS Application: “What’s That Tune?”

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=527

“What’s That Tune?” from Amazon Web Services. This is a mashup using three Amazon Web Services. The application records audio from a user and saves it to the Amazon Simple Storage service (S3), creates a HIT (Human Intelligence Tasks) in Amazon Mechanical Turk, uses the results of the HIT to search for related albums on Amazon.com using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service. Resources include prerequisites, running the sample and general notes.

Amazon Web Services Solutions Catalog : RSS Feeds

http://solutions.amazonwebservices.com/connect/rss.jspa?feed=rss/rssmessages.jspa?rssusername=mdavidpeterson

RSS Feeds: Amazon Web Services Solutions Catalog. A listing of all the Amazon Web Services RSS feeds available. Topics include Forum feedbacks, forum tips, Amazon Associates Web Service, Amazon Flexible Payments Service, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service, Alexa Site Thumbnail, Alexa Top Sites, Alexa Web Information Service, Alexa Web Search, Amazon SimpleDB, Web services Beta feedback, known issues, web services feature requests, web services bug reports, marketplace seller API, and web services code samples.

AWS Simple Monthly Calendar

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=841&categoryID=58

Tool: “AWS Simple Monthly Calendar,” by Jinesh Varia. This tool helps to calculate the monthly costs of using Amazon S3, EC2 and SQS web services. Features include best case and worst case scenarios and help in identifying areas of development (to help reduce user costs).

Google Code: PHP Library for Using AWS

http://code.google.com/p/php-aws

PHP library for using Amazon Web Services (AWS) (including S3, EC2, SQS and MTurk) from Google Code. This is a collection of classes for the AWS platform. Classes currently available include Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Addition projects include Raven SEO Tools, Edoceo S3 Toolkit (a command line S3 utility), and Basejumper.com (exports Basecamp accounts into activeCollab). Links are provided to downloads, the project wiki, issues and more.

Monster Muck Mashup—Video Conversion w/AWS

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=691&categoryID=55

Tutorial: “Monster Muck Mashup—Mass Video Conversion Using AWS,” by Mitch Garnaat. Discusses building a video conversion service using Amazon Web Services (including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)), putting the pieces together, building the EC2 image, building the conversion service, the message structure, converting the video, the arguments, and additional resources.

Using Amazon S3 from Amazon EC2 with Ruby

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=931&categoryID=55

Tutorial: “Using Amazon S3 from Amazon EC2 with Ruby,” by Jack Herrington. Discusses Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), installing and using S3Sync, EC2 command-line utilities, and how to set up an Amazon EC2 image.

Running Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon EC2 and Amazon

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=873&categoryID=55

Tutorial: “Running Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3,” by Tom White. Discusses the Apache Hadoop project (a framework for running large data processing applications), writing a MapReduce program, writing the code, testing the program, data considerations, packaging the code, launching the EC2 Hadoop cluster, moving the data and code to the cluster, running and monitoring the code, and interpreting the results.

Amazon Web Services EC2 Ruby Gem

http://amazon-ec2.rubyforge.org

Article: "Amazon Web Services EC2 Ruby Gem," from Rubyforge.com. Discusses Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the EC2 Ruby Gem interface library, what's new in EC2, installation, installation prerequisites, Gem dependencies, installing the gem, using the library, setup, OS X setup, the basics of the library, using the ec2-gem-example.rb sample test script, using the ec2sh command shell, using amazon-ec2 in Ruby scripts, using amazon-ec2 in Ruby on Rails applications, and important notes regarding the structure of EC2::Response objects.

Amazon EC2 FAQs

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=utf8&node=201591011

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) FAQ. Discusses what the EC2 is, what can be done with EC2, how to get started with EC2, what developers can do now that they could not do before, the hardware an application stack will run on, what the EC2 Compute Unit is, how to use EC2 with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), how to load and store a system with EC2, how to run systems in EC2 environment, how to access systems, how to prevent other users from viewing a system, what happens to data when a system terminates, how to participate in EC2, billing information, how many instances can be run, scaling capacity up or down, operating systems environments supported by EC2, and how this service is different than plain hosting services.

Programming S3, EC2, SQS and FPS

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-S3-EC2-SQS-FPS/dp/0596515812/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201201782&sr=1-1

Book: Programming S3, EC2, SQS and FPS, by James Murty (March 2008). Discusses how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), data storage and bandwidth; background and technical detail for using Amazon's subscription-based Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications; learn how to store and retrieve data using application servers, unlimited storage and bandwidth with the S3 service, buy computing time using Amazon’s EC2 interface, use Amazon’s web-scale messaging infrastructure, leverage the Amazon FPS service to structure payment instructions, create and store multiple data sets, query your data, return results using the SimpleDB, and scale up or down as needed.

Amazon Web Services Blog

http://aws.typepad.com

Amazon Web Services Blog. Topics include increasing Amazon S3 data transfer performance, the difference between Amazon FPS (Flexible Payments Service) and DevPay, Amazon EC2 public AMIs (Amazon Machine Images), EC2 Firefox Extension is now open source, Amazon Mechanical Turk features, Amazon SimpleDB, and job listings. Links include recent blogs, RSS feeds, suggested books and more.

Amazon.com Mashups

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-com-Mashups-Francis-Shanahan/dp/0470097779/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201203895&sr=1-3

Book: Amazon.com Mashups, by Francis Shanahan (January 2007). Discusses Web 2.0, the Amazon web service platform, the e-commerce service, the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), the Amazon Elastic Compute Service, the Amazon Simple Storage service (S3), Alexa, other mashable services, development tools, the technology, mashup techniques, creating your first remix, building your first mashup, putting the browser to work, an Ajax-powered wish list, consumer browser using JSON, improving performance, Amazon mobile, a generic storage solution using Amazon S3, and future ideas.

Update :: May 23, 2012
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