Questions tagged [amazon-web-services]
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How to write a string to Amazon S3 bucket?
How can I add a string as a file on amazon s3? From whaterver I searched, I got to know that we can upload a file to s3. What is the best way to upload data without creating file?
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how to get books information from amazon web service
I'm totally new to Amazon Web Service. I need to get book info from Amazon for my web app. I checked out Amazon Web Service but there are so many products and services. Which one should I focus on?
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How to digitally sign soap request using visual studio 2008
I'm using a web reference generated from a .wsdl file.
I've also examined the Amazon web service example but couldn't get it working.
Enclosed is an example of the soap request.
<soap:Envelope ...
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"Unable to associated Elastic IP with cluster" in Eclipse Plugin Tutorial
I am currently trying to evaluate AWS for my company and was trying to follow the tutorials on the web.
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=2241
However I get the ...
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Any client libraries that implement MVCC over Amazon SimpleDB?
Now that Amazon's SimpleDB implements consistent reads and conditional update/delete it is possible to implement cross-domain transactions using MVCC.
Are there any client libraries that provide it?
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Retrieve binary data from S3 storage through AWS.NET in C#
I've tested most of the included samples in the AWS SDK for .NET and they all works fine.
I can PUT objects, LIST objects and DELETE objects in a bucket, but... lets say I delete the original and ...
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EC2 - taking an EBS snapshot, saving to S3, and then launching instances from S3
I like the convenience of taking an AMI snapshot - but ideally I do no want to pay for the volume to be attached to my running instance.
Is there a way to save a snapshot instance to S3 and then ...
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How to get the list of price offers on an item from Amazon with python-amazon-product-api item_lookup function?
I am trying to write a function to get a list of offers (their prices) for an item based on the ASIN:
def price_offers(asin):
from amazonproduct import API, ResultPaginator, AWSError
from ...
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What's the best way to serve images across an EC2 cluster on AWS?
We want to be able to have a folder that can securely serve images across a cluster of web servers. What's the best way to handle this with Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Amazon S3? Amazon Elastic Block ...
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MySQL in AWS EC2 - How does it scale?
When you move beyond using one instance for your database, what is the best practice when using EC2? If the first instance is a master and you're spinning up slaves, they would need to scan the ...
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Auto Shutdown and Start Amazon EC2 Instance
Can I automatically start and terminate my Amazon instance using Amazon API? Can you please describe how this can be done? I ideally need to start the instance and stop the instance at specified time ...
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How can I script an alert for when my Amazon Web Service usage goes above a certain amount?
We're using S3, SimpleDB and SQS on quite a complicated project.
I'd like to be able to automatically track their usage, to be sure we don't suddenly spend large amounts of money when we didn't ...
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Processing live feed of logs from web server using Hadoop
I want to process the logs from my web server as it comes in using Hadoop (Amazon Elastic mapreduce). I googled for help but nothing useful. I would like to know if this can be done or is there any ...
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SimpleDB to ActiveResource. Rails
Im looking for a way to map an ActiveResource to SimpleDB
I want to avoid plugins/gems as all I have used are outdated/buggy/not mantained
It doesnt seem hard, I wonder if any of you have ...
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How do I include external Libraries in CodeIgniter?
I'm new to codeigniter, and I'm trying to integrate amazon's FPS into my page. There are a bunch of libraries and models that go with Amazon FPS, which I would need included to make the appropriate ...
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