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New AWS Case Study – Livemocha’s use of Amazon SimpleDB
We just posted a new case study. Read it to learn more about how Livemocha uses Amazon SimpleDB to create an online language learning community for over 3 million users and 25 distinct languages. Their VP of Engineering estimates that they have saved over $10,000 per month by migrating to SimpleDB and also notes that […]
Amazon SimpleDB Management in Eclipse
The popular AWS Toolkit for Eclipse now supports Amazon SimpleDB. Designed for version 3.5 of Eclipse and building on top of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform, the toolkit provides complete management support for SimpleDB. After opening Eclipse, you simply choose the Database Development Perspective, connect to SimpleDB using your AWS access identifiers, and view your […]
New SimpleDB Goodies: Enhanced Select, Larger Result Sets, Mandatory HTTPS
The Amazon SimpleDB team just cranked out a bunch of new features for the Select function, bumped up the maximum size of a batch of Select results, and also deprecated the old Query functions and the non-SSL interface. All of this new functionality is available through the 2009-04-15 version of the SimpleDB WSDL file. You […]
SimpleDB Developments
Amazon SimpleDB continues to expand, with new tools, tutorials, and success stories. We just published a new case study on Adaptive Blue’s new Glue product. Taking the form of a Firefox plug-in, Glue allows users to share feedback with friends on books, music, movies, restaurants, gadgets, stocks and other everyday things around the web. In […]
Upcoming Webinars
There are a number of webinars scheduled over the next several weeks, and the purpose of this post is to make certain everyone is aware of the various options and opportunities: Thursday, April 16 at 9:00am PST Cloud for Large Enterprise — Where to Start Hear Capgemini put AWS and cloud computing in context for […]
Webinar: Amazon SimpleDB Developer Brown Bag
Join the Amazon SimpleDB team for the latest in our ongoing Developer Brown Bag series. Topics will include: Recap of recently released features A step-by-step SimpleDB tutorial by AWS Evangelist Mike Culver Your questions We will take live questions via the webinar console, but to allow for a more thorough response, attendees are encouraged to […]
Amazon SimpleDB Batch Put, More Attributes Per Domain
We’ve just released an important new feature for Amazon SimpleDB. The new BatchPutAttributes function allows you to create or update up to 25 SimpleDB items at a time, in transactional fashion. This new call is more efficient than a series of individual PutAttribute calls since one call incurs far less connection latency than a series […]
SimpleDB Developer’s Brown Bag
You are invited to join the Amazon SimpleDB team on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 9am PST for the first session of our new Developers Brown Bag. During these once monthly webinar sessions, developers will hear from the technical experts behind SimpleDB, and have the opportunity to engage in live Q&A. Interested developers may register […]