Articles & Tutorials

This article describes some helpful tips and tricks for developing applications on the AWS SDK for Java.

This document provides step-by-step instructions for creating a test lab demonstrating identity federation between an on-premise Windows Server Active Directory domain and an ASP.NET web application hosted on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service, using Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) technology.

Which data store should you use in your Python application? AWS community developer Reza Lotun discusses the merits of each option available on AWS.

New to AWS? This article walks through three popular Amazon services (Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, and Amazon EC2) using the boto library for Python.

Use the Marajo framework to help migrate your Django or Pylons application to Amazon Web Services.

This guide describes how to get started with User Provided Kernels.

This article and accompanying video walks through the steps for getting started with the AWS SDK for .NET, including installing the AWS SDK for .NET, creating new projects using project templates, running the packaged code samples, and getting help with development.

This guide has been deprecated for the updates to the User and Developer Guides.

This article describes the differences between the AWS SDK for Java and previous Java libraries from Amazon Web Services.

This guide introduces the AWS SDK for Java and provides a walk-through for getting started using the SDK for both Eclipse and non-Eclipse users.

This tutorial describes one approach to using Amazon EC2's Elastic Block Store (EBS) as a persistent storage mechanism for a production MySQL database server, including snapshot backup and restore.

This guide provides information on loading data into Amazon RDS for the MySQL 5.1 engine. The main body of the guide provides step-by-step procedures for loading data fast and efficiently while safeguarding your data. An appendix is provided that contains additional technical information.

Most applications developed today need structured data stores, i.e. data stores that allow storage of data records that have multiple attributes, and allow the application to query its data based on one or more of these attributes.The most popular example of a structured data store is a relational database. Relational databases allow customers to define their data through a pre-defined relational schema and to query their data using SQL.In addition to relational databases, there are several non-relational structured data stores that allow customers to store data records with multiple attributes and query based on one or more of these attributes.These non-relational data stores differ in how they structure data: all the way from enforcing no schema structure to enforcing a semi structured schema.

Pixable is a fast and easy album creator that allows users to import photos that are already on Facebook, Flickr and Picasa.

Amazon RDS provides system resource utilization metrics for each of your DB Instances to assist you in choosing DB Instance classes and allocating storage capacity. This document describes how to access these metrics and provides examples using the Amazon CloudWatch API Tools.

One of the advantages of Amazon RDS is that you can easily select and change the amount of compute and storage resources available to your DB Instance. This guide will assist you in the process of choosing the initial capacity of your DB Instances and show you how to change the resources available to existing DB Instances.

In order to upgrade your AMI to the latest kernel you will have to launch your existing AMI and rebundle it explicitly overriding thedefault bundling tools behavior - which is to use the instance meta-data service to determine your current kernel and ramdiskcombination OR overriding the launch time kernel and ramdisk parameters.

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This release introduces the new Amazon EC2 region located in Europe.

This release introduces Amazon EC2 instances that run the Windows operating system.

A collection of those issues that keep coming up over time. This is a must read for new Amazon EC2 users and a great refresher for those developers already using the service.

Communication on the Internet is susceptible to eavesdropping and malicious tampering. Amazon Web Services recommends you take action to protect the API requests you send.

Running Windows SharePoint Services on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) platform is similar to running on a typical server. Rather than running on physical hardware, however, your Amazon EC2 instances are virtual machines (VMs) running on hardware in Amazon's data centers.

Hosts on the Internet are vulnerable to attack, including your EC2 instances. This article outlines a number of best practices for helping you secure your instances.

This document describes how to customize your instance based on locality.