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Mobile Photo Uploads to Amazon S3

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

Additional Features of Hive in Amazon Elastic MapReduce

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

Hosting Facebook Applications on Amazon EC2

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

How To Share and Use Public AMIs in A Secure Manner

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

Public AMI Publishing: Hardening and Clean-up Requirements

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

Available Region Endpoints for the AWS SDKs

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 Bucket Public Access Considerations

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

Getting Started with the AWS SDK for Ruby

The AWS SDK for Ruby helps you to get started building applications using AWS infrastructure services, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, and more. This guide shows how you can start building Ruby and Rails applications on the Amazon Web Services platform with the AWS Ruby gem.

Last Modified: Jul 14, 2011 21:43 PM GMT

Using Amazon SES in Python with Postman and Postfix

Email can be challenging to set up correctly for high-quality delivery, but this article helps you through the process so that Amazon SES does the heavy lifting, leaving you with the energy to focus on building great software.

Last Modified: Jun 10, 2011 17:57 PM GMT

Automating Application Installation Using AWS CloudFormation and Cloud-Init

Amazon Linux AMI can be used along with AWS CloudFormation to start up and configure an application dynamically at boot time. This article shows how to use the new WaitCondition resource supported by AWS CloudFormation to wait for a Ruby on Rails application to be configured and launched before the stack is considered to be successfully created. The example also takes advantage of the Amazon Linux AMI support for Cloud-init, an open source application built by Canonical. Cloud-init enables you to use the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) UserData parameter to specify actions to run on your instance at boot time.

Last Modified: Jun 8, 2011 5:13 AM GMT

An Introduction to Spot Instances

Spot Instances are a new way to purchase and consume Amazon EC2 Instances. They allow customersto bid on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their bid exceeds thecurrent Spot Price. Amazon EC2 changes the Spot Price periodically based on supply and demand, andcustomers whose bids meet or exceed it gain access to the available Spot Instances. Spot Instances arecomplementary to On-Demand Instances and Reserved Instances, providing another option forobtaining compute capacity.

Last Modified: May 27, 2011 6:34 AM GMT

Client-Side Data Encryption with the AWS SDK for Java and Amazon S3

The AWS SDK for Java provides an easy to use, client-side encryption mechanism to help you securely store your application's data in Amazon S3. Since the encryption/decryption is all done client side, your private encryption keys never leave your application.

Last Modified: Apr 5, 2011 0:04 AM GMT

Using an Example of Sharding with Hibernate

Amazon developer manager James Horsley provides an example application that shows how to use Amazon RDS and Hibernate sharding to help scale your database.

Last Modified: Mar 10, 2011 23:22 PM GMT

Using AWS with COM

This article investigates options for integrating C++ code with the cloud computing infrastructure from Amazon Web Services.

Last Modified: Feb 23, 2011 18:53 PM GMT

Amazon RDS for C# Developers

Microsoft MVP Mark Blomsma demonstrates what it takes for a C# developer to work with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in a Microsoft .NET solution using the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

Last Modified: Feb 23, 2011 18:41 PM GMT

Running High-CPU or High-Memory Applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

This article highlights how to change your EC2 instance type for AWS Elastic Beanstalk applications and how to diagnose issues with applications that require high-CPU or high-memory.

Last Modified: Jan 28, 2011 0:39 AM GMT

Getting Started with AWS Elastic Beanstalk Deployment in Eclipse

This guide introduces the AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment feature of the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse and provides a walkthrough for getting started with AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment for developers using the Eclipse IDE.

Last Modified: Jan 19, 2011 5:39 AM GMT

Using the Java Persistence API with Amazon SimpleDB

AWS community developer Nathan A. Good digs into the Travel Log sample web application and shows how it uses the Java Persistence API with Amazon SimpleDB.

Last Modified: Jan 5, 2011 21:37 PM GMT

This article gives an introduction to processing n-gram data using Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Apache Hive. In this example we will calculate the top trending topics per decade. The data used to find the topics comes from the Google Book's n-gram corpus.

Last Modified: Dec 23, 2010 22:31 PM GMT

Netflix's Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems

This paper addresses Netflix's transition to AWS SimpleDB and S3, as examples of AP (a.k.a. Available-Network Partition Tolerant) storage systems.

Last Modified: Nov 18, 2010 2:13 AM GMT

Getting Started with the AWS SDK for PHP

This guide shows you how to start building PHP applications on the Amazon Web Services platform with the AWS SDK for PHP.

Last Modified: Sep 29, 2010 1:17 AM GMT

Migrating to the AWS SDK for PHP

CloudFusion has now become the AWS SDK for PHP. This guide walks through the specific changes for migrating from CloudFusion 2.5 to the AWS SDK for PHP 1.0.

Last Modified: Sep 29, 2010 0:05 AM GMT

AWS SDK for PHP Tips and Tricks

Watch our screencasts for more information on developing applications on the AWS SDK for PHP.

Last Modified: Sep 29, 2010 0:04 AM GMT

AWS SDK for Java Tips and Tricks

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

Last Modified: Sep 3, 2010 17:55 PM GMT

Single Sign-on with Windows ADFS to Amazon EC2 .NET Applications

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.

Last Modified: Aug 18, 2010 23:32 PM GMT

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