Category: Developer Tools

Ed Quinn dropped me a note with information about his newest creation, AmazonCommerceService.NET. AmazonCommerceService.NET is a set of .NET classes. It creates REST requests for ECS and then queues them up, dispatching them to Amazon at the rate of 1 request per second per the license agreement. The results are delivered asychronously as they arrive, […]

This is my 300th post to this blog, and I’ll celebrate by posting a veritable potpourri of interesting items. In a rare self-congratulatory note I will observe that we are the first entry on the Fortune 500 Business Blogging List. Priceheat is a one-click Amazon price-checker bookmarklet. Mark O’Neill talks about Security for REST Web […]

Amazon’s new S3 service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis. This is commonly called utility computing; it is totally analogous to the way in which you pay for the water, electricity, and natural gas that you use in your home. With this post I would like to make clear just how easy it is to […]

Developer activity around S3 continues at a rapid pace, and I already have enough material for another S3 roundup. Here goes: Doug Kaye, who interviewed me several years ago for IT Conversations, asks about the use of S3 as a CDN, or content delivery network. Great idea, and I will pass this post along to […]

A few minutes of surfing, a scan of the S3 forum, a couple of Technorati and PubSub alerts, and a del.icio.us S3 tag brought all of the following cool S3 activity to my attention: Dave Winer wants to have a Bay Area S3 conference. That’s an interesting idea, and I’ll see what we can do […]

  Update November 9, 2021 – This post has been updated to remove broken links. Adrian Holovaty is now using Amazon’s S3 to store files for his Chicago Crime site. In his recent blog post, “How I’m using Amazon’s S3 to store media files“, he describes the entire process of moving his files over. Adrian […]

I just found out about a few more cool S3 wrappers: S3Ajax – An Ajax Wrapper for S3 S33r – S3 + Rails S3Dav – a WebDAV server for S3 — Jeff; Modified 2/9/2021 – In an effort to ensure a great experience, expired links in this post have been updated or removed from the […]

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 […]