Author: Jeff Barr

There’s a lot going on with Amazon’s new S3 service; here’s a quick roundup of some of what I’ve seen in the last couple of days: Over at InfoWorld, Jon Udell proposes S3 as a piece of politically neutral architecture. Mitch Garnaat has created BitBucket, a set of Python scripts for S3 access. There’s even […]

I met the founder of Mozes at Mashup Camp earlier this year. They just rolled out the beta version of their new service. To use Mozes, you simply send (or “text” as my kids would say) an SMS message to 66937. The message must start with the word “book”, a space, and  then the 10-digit […]

This interesting quote from Sam Newman over at Magpie Brain caught my eye: “Amazon S3 exists only for other services and applications.” Sam’s entire post is worth reading; I think he really captures the spirit behind  S3. — Jeff;

RSS is one of those fundamentally important technologies, something that we’ll look back on in 10 or 15 years and wonder how we got along without it. Every day I see another interesting use for RSS, and I don’t expect the rate of innovation to slow down any time soon. Today’s wonder is RSS Talker, […]

Every Amazon wishlist now has an associated  RSS feed, as you can see in the picture at right. You can access the RSS via the standard orange button. The generated RSS makes use of Microsoft’s new Simple List Extensions.When used with an SLE-aware browser  or news reader, these extensions allow the wishlist items to be […]

Earlier today we rolled out Amazon S3, our reliable, highly scalable, low-latency data storage service. Using SOAP and REST interfaces, developers can easily store any number of blocks of data in S3. Each block can be up to 5 GB in length, and is associated with a user-defined key and additional key/value metadata pairs. Further, […]

If you need to create signed requests to AWIS or other Amazon web services and you are using JavaScript, this JavaScript MD5 code may be handy. Update: Adam Kennedy notes that there’s another similar module, Digest::MD5. This module is part of the JavaScript Archive Network (JSAN) – not to be confused with JSON, the JavaScript […]

We’ve just rolled out the new AWS Developer Connection, featuring lots and lots of developer-oriented information including code samples, technical documentation, and release notes, all organized on a per-service basis. The new online community environment is browsable and searchable, so you can easily find what you are looking for. — Jeff;