Author: Jeff Barr

We recently fixed a bug which caused queries in the UK locale for so-called “import ASINs” to return certain prices in US dollars. This change went live for US, UK, and DE on the evening of January 10th, and for JP on the morning of January 11th.

This message summarizes a problem that some ECS 3.0 users encountered during the last 4 days and the steps that may need to be taken to ensure that developer applications are running as intended. As a result of some internal changes made by AWS on January 6th, ECS 3.0 began returning undocumented values for the […]

Wired magazine just published an interview with Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Learn about why we don’t advertise, why search inside the book helps us to sell more books (rather than less, as many predicted), how we create demand for an ever-widening collection of products, and the role of physical stores and coffee shops […]

Elena has updated the AWS Zone to include scratchpads for each supported ECS Locale (US, UK, Germany, and Japan). Cool!

Jason Levitt just published a new article, Fun With Amazon’s Simple Queue Service. The article introduces SQS and shows how to use it to build a chat application.

File this one under “oldie but goodie.” Way back in early 2003 we started working with Microsoft to explore ways to use AWS within what was then called “Office 10”. Microsoft had been describing all of the ways in which Office 10 would be friendly to XML and to Web Services, so the collaboration seemed […]

The DVD-Sky site combines information gleaned from popular DVD rental sites with Amazon product data to offer a list of popular DVDs available for sale from Amazon. Of note is the fact that the site uses the detailed product information returned by version 4 of ECS to combine data for multiple  DVD editions into a […]

The ShopEdge program allows owners of any Smartphone (the site lists Audiovox SMT 5600, Motorola MPx220, Cingular  Samsung SCH-i600, Verizon Wireless  SP-i600 Smartphone, and the Sprint  Voq Professional Phone) to access the Amazon product catalog using a clean and simple user interface. Features include price checking, access to reviews, movie showtimes, and restaurant information. Free […]