AWS News Blog

A new version of the AWS Talks and Chats Calendar has been posted, with details on 4 new talks by Amazon’s Jeff Barr.

Version 2.5 of the Associate-O-Matic store builder is now available. The new release features enhanced control of the home page (more formats including single item and browse node, additional tabs), direct support for mod_rewrite to aid in search engine optimization, reporting, and improved caching. Two versions of Associate-O-Matic are available. The full version lists for […]

Soapui is an open source Java 1.5 tool (with a Swing UI) for inspecting and testing SOAP-based web services. It supports WSDL importing, request generation, an unlimited number of requests per operation, multiple service endpoints for the same service, validation, three types of authentication, and background processing. (found on webservices.org)

The previously published link to the jobs page for the Amazon Development Center in Bangalore was incorrect. That link has been fixed. The proper page is http://india.amazon.com/openings.php .

Microsoft’s IE blog is reporting on the behind the scenes efforts which lead up to the recent announcement that IE7 will support A9.com’s OpenSearch interface. You can read even more about this on the A9 blog. While this is not directly related to AWS, it is a perfect example of how open standards (e.g. XML […]

The Amazon Developer Relations team is currently on site at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, California. If you are at the conference, please feel free to stop by and say hello to the AWS gang.

Recently I spent sometime talking with Amir of Txtfo, for those of you who dont know who or what Txtfo are, there are a company with a great idea; namely to allow you to use SMS technology available on all mobile phones to get information from Amazon. This information can be anything thats supported by […]

Robert Scoble of Microsoft’s Channel 9 recently paid a visit to Amazon’s Seattle office to interview Jeff Barr and Steve Rabuchin of Amazon’s Developer Relations team. In this 19 minute video, you can see how developers are using Amazon’s Web Services in a variety of ways. You can also learn about the joint Amazon/Microsoft Developer […]