The latest version of Amazon’s SimpleDB service is available, and happily it now allows for sorting of query results. This highly-anticipated feature will make the service much more useful.
Sorting still suffers from some limitations: you can only sort by a single attribute, you cannot perform sorting in queries that contain union or not predicates, and [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
Major S3 and SQS outage
Posted in AWS on Jul 21st, 2008
As I post this, Amazon’s S3 and SQS services have both been down for hours. The latest updates to the service health dashboard are promising so things will hopefully be resolved soon, but this definitely isn’t a good sight:
Update
Amazon has posted a full explanation of the recent S3 outage here: Amazon S3 Availability Event: July [...]
When developing a web site or application, you may sometimes need to expose the development version running inside your network to the public Internet. This can be necessary to test the communication between your application and an external service, such as PayPal.
AWS Cloud Architecture: White paper with best practices
Posted in AWS on Jul 20th, 2008
Amazon staff member Jinesh Varia has written a white paper in two parts that describes a “cloud architecture” application built on the SQS, EC2, S3 and SimpleDB services, and discusses best practices for using these services.
This paper is an excellent resource for anyone designing a scalable application based on AWS, especially Part 2 and [...]