Category: Developer Tools

We have updated the AWS SDK for iOS and the AWS SDK for Android to make it easier for you to build applications that need to make calls to AWS using your AWS credentials. Until now, your AWS credentials would have to be stored on the device. If your credentials are embedded in a mobile […]

We have added a number of handy and useful features to the popular AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. The toolkit includes the AWS SDK for Java; you can use it to develop AWS applications for deployment directly on Amazon EC2 or via AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The new features include a new AWS Explorer, support for multiple […]

Christie from Jinfonet emailed to tell me about their newest video, Cloud Reporting from Amazon EC2: Per their recent press release, their JReport product can be installed on one or more EC2 instances with linear scaling as additional instances are added. A clustered installation of JReport can include hundreds of EC2 nodes and is able […]

Ruby is a wonderful programming language. Optimized for ‘developer joy’, it is an object oriented playground for building simple domain specific languages, orchestration tools, and most famously, web applications. In many ways, the Ruby language and Amazon cloud services such as EC2 and S3 have similar goals: to help developers and businesses build innovative products without […]

The AWS SDK for Android and the AWS SDK for iOS now support even more AWS services: Amazon EC2 Amazon CloudWatch Amazon Simple Email Service Elastic Load Balancing Auto Scaling The SDKs already support Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service, and Amazon SNS. With the added services, you can now add the following […]

Amazon’s cloud computing platform makes it easy to provision infrastructure resources quickly. Spinning up a single server is straightforward, but larger deployments of multiple tier applications often require a little co-ordination. Join me for the next of our monthly technical seminars in which we’ll cover the various techniques and tools for orchestrating cloud deployments: 10am, […]

The folks at ActiveState have cooked up an ActivePython AMI to make it easy for you to build and deploy web application written in Python.You can get started in minutes without having to download, install, or configure anything. The AMI is based on the 64-bit version of Ubuntu and includes MySQL, SQLite, Apache, ActivePython, Django, […]

I’m very pleased to invite you all to join the AWS team in London, for our first Tech Summit of 2011. We’ll take a quick, high level tour of the Amazon Web Services cloud platform before diving into the technical detail of how to build highly available, fault tolerant systems, host databases and deploy Java applications […]