The Force.com Toolkit for Amazon Web Services makes it easy for developers to combine the functionality of Force.com—salesforce.com’s platform for building software-as-a-service applications—with Amazon Web Services to create innovative business applications in the cloud.
With a framework for authentication, native access to Amazon S3, and pre-built Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Amazon EC2, the toolkit enables developers to access Amazon S3 or Amazon EC2 directly from the Force.com platform 
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Get Started
Follow these steps to begin using Force.com and Amazon Web Services:
- For scalable computing resources, sign up for Amazon EC2. For scalable storage, sign up for Amazon S3.
- Sign up for a free salesforce.com Developer Edition account .
- Install the Force.com Toolkit into your Developer Edition account. The package includes the Amazon S3 toolkit, Amazon S3 samples, AWS credentials management, and an Amazon EC2 instance viewer.
- Access the Force.com PHP AMI to use with Amazon EC2. This AMI is pre-configured with libraries for accessing the Force.com API from PHP. It is built on Fedora Core 4 and PHP 5.6.2, and includes the latest build of the PHP toolkit (v14).
- View Force.com Toolkit developer docs at the salesforce.com platform community site, developer.force.com
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