With 55 million active members worldwide (as of November 2007), Facebook’s social networking site allows you to create and share your applications with a massive and growing community of users. Amazon Web Services enables you to quickly implement your ideas for Facebook applications by providing an inexpensive, scalable computing platform to develop, host, and distribute your application. Using these infrastructure web services, your Facebook application is able to reach “web-scale” by scaling up and down seamlessly as demand dictates—with pay-as-you-go pricing and no upfront costs.
To get started, simply sign up and start building:
- Sign up for Amazon EC2 for elastic compute capacity in a virtual environment.
- Sign up for Amazon CloudFront for faster and more cost-effective content delivery..
- Sign up for a Facebook developer account.
- Take advantage of Facebook and Amazon Web Services developer resources:
"Hosting Facebook Applications on Amazon EC2"Tutorial- HelloWorld Facebook Application AMI
- Getting Started with CloudFront: Review the Tutorial Migrating to CloudFront Guide
- Watch a short video tutorial to show you step by step how to use the CloudFront service
- AWS Resource Center for plugins, command line tools, code samples and more.
- AWS Simple Monthly Cost Calculator to estimate your monthly AWS costs.
- Post your questions to the developer forums:
- Launch your application on Facebook and apply for your Powered by Amazon Web Services logo
Learn how other Facebook developers have utilized Amazon Web Services with success. Read interviews with the creators of Booze Mail, iLike, Family Tree, We’re Related and SocialMoth Secrets.
In addition, popular Facebook game developers are providing innovative and scalable Facebook games and applications using Amazon CloudFront for their Content Delivery to lower costs and improve their users experience. For an example, see the Playfish case study.
Check out the other solutions* Amazon Web Services provides to help you build innovative applications.
* Amazon Associates Web Service is currently not available for use on Facebook.
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