Newsletters
May 2007
Newsletter #25
Greetings AWS Developers,
This month, learn how to use the new Amazon Mechanical Turk Sandbox to test your Mechanical Turk applications. We also have some upcoming AWS pricing changes, so please take a look below to learn more. As a brief follow-up on Web 2.0 Expo, it was a great conference, and exciting to be joined by several of you on the show floor. In case you’re coordinating Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions at shows like this, and would like some AWS support, check out the Upcoming Events section below.
Kathrin Jackson
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Mechanical Turk – Developer Sandbox Now Available
The Amazon Mechanical Turk Developer Sandbox is a simulated environment that allows you to test your applications and HITs. The Developer Sandbox is free to use for registered Mechanical Turk Requesters.
Features of the Developer Sandbox include:- Test your Mechanical Turk solution for free. Fees will not be withdrawn and payments will not be made to Worker accounts.
- Functional parity with the production web site.
- Simple URL change to configure your application to work against the Developer Sandbox or the production web site.
Check out the Amazon Mechanical Turk Developer Sandbox.
Upcoming AWS Pricing Changes
A quick reminder that on Monday we announced some price changes for AWS services, which will take effect on June 1st, 2007. These include a significant reduction in bandwidth prices, applicable to Amazon S3, EC2 and SQS customers. In addition we have instituted a small request-based charge for Amazon S3 transactions. The net effect for the vast majority of our existing customers will be a price decrease. Please see the Amazon S3, EC2, and SQS detail pages for the full details of the new pricing plan for each service.
Developer Resources: Community Content for Amazon S3, SQS, and EC2
Distributed Messaging with Ruby and Amazon SQS
AWS developer Jack Herrington gives an introduction to Amazon SQS using the Ruby programming language.
AWS developer Steve Odom shows how to deploy a Rails application on Amazon EC2 using Capistrano and the Elastic Rails plug-in.
Simple Access to Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 in Perl
AWS developer Timothy Kay put together this command-line tool, based on Perl and curl, that provides easy access to Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The tool is designed to be simple to install and simple to use.
Solutions Catalog Highlights – What Your Peers Are Building
Check out the wide variety of AWS applications this month: bug tracking, backup solutions, and “bling”!
Digisense System
For Managed IT Service Providers: Turnkey off-site backup and archiving at a flat monthly fee. Built using Amazon S3.
16bugs makes bug tracking easy, allowing you to outsource your bug tracking needs and access a very simple and easy-to-use interface. Built using Amazon S3.
BlingeeTM
Blingee is a platform for creatively enhancing digital pictures with customizable animation. Built using Amazon S3.
Not listed in the Solutions Catalog yet? Start with our community co-marketing. Check out the AWS blog for more news about AWS developers and their applications.
Upcoming Events
AWS team members will be busy this month, traveling to a variety of conferences and User Groups. If you happen to be organizing a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at any of these events, feel free to shoot us an e-mail at aws@amazon.com; we’d love to hear about it and come support you!
Startup Camp 2 – San Francisco, CA
May 7-8, 2007
Jinesh Varia
Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET – Atlanta, GA
May 7, 2007
Mike Culver
Boston .NET User Group – Waltham, MA
May 8, 2007
Mike Culver
Madison Ruby on Rails User Group – Madison, WI
May 9, 2007
Mike Culver
Milwaukee .NET Users Group – Milwaukee, WI
May 10, 2007
Mike Culver
O’Reilly RailsConf – Portland, OR
May 17-20, 2007
Jinesh Varia
Portland Code Camp – Portland, OR
May 19-20, 2007
Jinesh Varia
Dallas .NET Users Group – Dallas, TX
May 22, 2007
Mike Culver
Refresh – Dallas, TX
May 23, 2007
Mike Culver
O’Reilly Where2.0 – San Jose, CA
May 29-30, 2007
Jinesh Varia
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