Articles & Tutorials

The Articles and Tutorials section features in-depth documents designed to give practical help to developers working with AWS. They have been created by members of the AWS developer community or the Amazon Team and give structured examples, analysis, tips, tricks and guidelines based on real usage of AWS services.

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Optional Windows Server operating system components are typically added or configured using installation media. This tutorial describes how to add or configure optional Windows components within the Amazon EC2 environment.
Last Modified: May 9, 2012 16:55 PM GMT
The following tutorial walks you through the process of using Informatica's HParser hosted on Amazon EMR to process custom text files into an easy-to-analyze XML format.
Last Modified: May 3, 2012 15:25 PM GMT
Sending E-mail with Amazon SES Using the AWS SDK for iOS and the AWS SDK for Android
Last Modified: Apr 9, 2012 17:08 PM GMT
An introduction to using Amazon DynamoDB with the AWS SDK for .NET object persistence framework.
Last Modified: Mar 30, 2012 14:53 PM GMT
Storing User Preference in Amazon DynamoDB using the AWS SDK for iOS and the AWS SDK for Android.
Last Modified: Mar 16, 2012 15:57 PM GMT
This article describes the features and unique architecture of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Load Balancing service. It provides you with best practices, so that you can avoid common pitfalls when you test and evaluate Elastic Load Balancing. The intended audience for this whitepaper is developers who have minimal experience using Elastic Load Balancing, but it will be especially relevant if you have used software or hardware load balancers in the past.
Last Modified: Feb 27, 2012 23:37 PM GMT
This article shows how to use EMR to efficiently export DynamoDB tables to S3, import S3 data into DynamoDB, and perform sophisticated queries across tables stored in both DynamoDB and other storage services such as S3.
Last Modified: Feb 15, 2012 4:57 AM GMT

An internet advertising company operates a data warehouse using Hive and Amazon Elastic MapReduce. This company runs machines in Amazon EC2 that serve advertising impressions and redirect clicks to the advertised sites. The machines running in Amazon EC2 store each impression and click in log files pushed to Amazon S3.

Last Modified: Feb 15, 2012 2:55 AM GMT
This page lists documentation resources specific to using Hive on Amazon Elastic MapReduce.
Last Modified: Feb 15, 2012 2:47 AM GMT
Messaging Users with Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS using the AWS SDK for iOS and the AWS SDK for Android
Last Modified: Dec 16, 2011 22:32 PM GMT
This tutorial shows you how to develop a simple, log parsing application using Pig and Amazon Elastic MapReduce. The tutorial walks you through using Pig interactively (via SSH) on a subset of your data, which enables you to prototype your script quickly. The tutorial then takes you through uploading the script to Amazon S3 and running on a larger set of input data.
Last Modified: Dec 13, 2011 1:01 AM GMT
Storing High Scores in Amazon SimpleDB using the AWS SDK for iOS and the AWS SDK for Android
Last Modified: Nov 22, 2011 18:19 PM GMT
This tutorial shows how to use Karmasphere Analyst with Amazon Elastic MapReduce to analyze large data sets stored in Amazon S3.
Last Modified: Oct 28, 2011 0:30 AM GMT
This tutorial will show you how to use Karmasphere Studio to develop, debug and deploy Hadoop Jobs for Amazon Elastic MapReduce.
Last Modified: Oct 28, 2011 0:28 AM GMT
Mobile Photo Uploads to Amazon S3 using the AWS SDK for iOS and AWS SDK for Android
Last Modified: Oct 13, 2011 18:05 PM GMT
This article describes the Hive extensions that make Hive work more easily with Amazon Elastic MapReduce.
Last Modified: Oct 4, 2011 16:31 PM GMT
Learn how to launch your Facebook application on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure within minutes. A Facebook application—whether it is online casual game or social application—is a hosted web application that utilizes the Facebook API. You can host your Facebook applications on AWS to access a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective compute infrastructure.
Last Modified: Sep 22, 2011 0:10 AM GMT
Any application making requests directly to AWS APIs should take care in managing the AWS security credentials used to sign requests to AWS, including mobile applications. This article walks through current solutions for credential management in applications based on the mobile AWS SDKs.
Last Modified: Sep 7, 2011 23:07 PM GMT
When using Amazon Machine Images (AMI's) it is important to remember to use proper precautions to ensure that private information is not inadvertently left on AMI's when shared publicly. This tutorial is provided to help customers share public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in a secure manner.
Last Modified: Sep 7, 2011 0:46 AM GMT
As a publisher of a public AMI, you are responsible for the initial security posture of the machine images that you distribute. In order to protect our customers, certain minimum security standards must be met by all public AMIs.
Last Modified: Sep 7, 2011 0:28 AM GMT
AWS infrastructure services are hosted in a number of regions, including locations in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific. This article lists the web service API endpoints needed to make API requests and manage infrastructure in each region.
Last Modified: Sep 1, 2011 0:10 AM GMT
Amazon S3 provides a rich set of mechanisms for you to manage access to your buckets and objects. This article describes the different access control options in Amazon S3 and helps you choose the best option for your use case.
Last Modified: Aug 27, 2011 14:07 PM GMT
This tutorial provides a brief introduction on how to configure Amazon CloudFront streaming, using Flash Builder as your video editing/composing environment.
Last Modified: Aug 3, 2011 17:43 PM GMT
This tutorial provides a brief introduction on how to configure Amazon CloudFront streaming, using JW Player as your video player. You can read more about JW Player at http://www.longtailvideo.com/
Last Modified: Aug 3, 2011 17:43 PM GMT
This tutorial provides a brief introduction on how to configure Amazon CloudFront streaming, using Flowplayer as your video player. You can read more about Flowplayer at http://flowplayer.org/.In order to complete this tutorial, you must first sign up for Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront.
Last Modified: Aug 3, 2011 17:43 PM GMT
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