AWS News Blog

If you work with data from ECS (or any of the other Amazon services, for that matter) you may want to consider using an XML editor. Here’s an article about open source XML editors. If you are looking for a commercial product, consider Altova’s XML Spy.

Francis Shanahan has developed Zuggest, a novel approach to searching the Amazon catalog. Simply enter your query, and Zuggest will make a call to ECS every couple of seconds and update the display accordingly. Zuggest is an example of a so-called “Ajax” application, using a combination of asynchronous calls to ECS and direct processing of […]

We updated the ECS 3 service earlier today. Here are the details: Features and Fixes Duplicate product descriptions returned in Search operations Search operations no longer return duplicate product descriptions. Search operation with .mode=books. fail for CA locale As documented in our 3.0 SDK, users need to pass in the appropriate “mode=books-xx” parameter for intl […]

We updated the ECS 4 service earlier today. The new WSDL version is 2005-02-23. Here are the details: Features and Fixes Searching by European Article Number (EAN) is now supported for CA Searching by EAN is now supported in the CA locale for Classical, DVD, Music, Video and VHS SearchIndices. New element, URLEncodedHMAC, is available […]

The new ECS-powered dealazon.com site displays the best deals (products with the highest discounts) from a number of Amazon categories, including Electronics, Kitchen, Toys, Tools, Books, Music, DVDs,  and Jewelry & Watches. The site also offers RSS feeds for each type of deal. 

The ECS-powered Pricenoia site has been updated. According to the latest entry in the Pricenoia blog, this release includes the following new features: Access to data from Amazon France and Amazon Canada Used and Third Party pricing data The option to search all Amazon sites simultaneously Additional product lines More sorting options User preferences Additional […]

The ECS-powered Music Plasma site has morphed into the more powerful and more general Live Plasma. Music Plasma was used to search and browse the Amazon music catalog. Live Plasma builds on this to allow searching music and movies. It also features a multilingual user interface, a more interesting visual presentation (including product images), and […]

Did you ever want to find a random Amazon product at a certain price point? If so, you will find Thomas Scott‘s “I’m Feeling Spendy” tool very handy. Select UK pounds or US dollars, enter in a price, and hit the button. The bottom panel will show a randomly selected Amazon product at or around […]