Author: zachmu

Over the past few months, we’ve talked about using the AWS SDK for Java to store and retrieve Java objects in Amazon DynamoDB. Our first post was about the basic features of the DynamoDBMapper framework, and then we zeroed in on the behavior of auto-paginated scan. Today we’re going to spend some time talking about […]

Wherever you or your customers are in the world, there are AWS data centers nearby. Each AWS region is a completely independent stack of services, totally isolated from other regions. You should always host your AWS application in the region nearest your customers. For example, if your customers are in Japan, running your website from […]

Jason and I are at EclipseCon in Boston this week to discuss what we’ve learned developing the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse over the last three years. Our session is chock full of advice for how to develop great Eclipse plug-ins, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at how we build the Toolkit. Here’s what we plan […]

When you’re building the next great application with AWS services, you’ll probably end up with several different AWS accounts. You may have one account for your production application’s resources, another for your development environment, and a couple more for personal testing. It can be really helpful to switch between these various accounts during your development, […]

The DynamoDBMapper framework is a simple way to get Java objects into Amazon DynamoDB and back out again. In a blog post a few months ago, we outlined a simple use case for saving an object to DynamoDB, loading it, and then deleting it. If you haven’t used the DynamoDBMapper framework before, you should take […]

If you couldn’t make it to AWS re:Invent this year, you can watch all of the presentations on the AWS YouTube channel. My talk was about using the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse to develop and deploy a simple meme generation app. The application uses a common AWS architectural design pattern to process its workload and […]

As we announced previously, the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse now supports creating AWS-enabled Android projects, making it easier to get started talking to AWS services from your Android app. The Toolkit will also optionally create a sample Android application that talks to S3. Let’s walk through creating a new AWS Android project and running the […]

The AWS Toolkit for Eclipse will automatically download new releases of the AWS SDK for Java, ensuring that you always have the most recent version of the service clients and productivity libraries. Some customers with slow network connections told us that the automatic downloads were sometimes triggered when they didn’t want to wait. In response, […]

The first ever AWS conference, re:Invent, has sold out! If you are one of the lucky people with a conference pass, we hope that you will come to hear Jason Fulghum and me speak about advanced features of the AWS SDK for Java and the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. On Wednesday morning after the keynote, […]

The AWS SDK for Java makes it easy to store objects in Amazon DynamoDB and get them back out again, all without having to write the code to transform your objects into table items and vice versa. All you need to do is annotate your domain classes in a few places and the SDK will […]