Monthly Archives: July 2008

SimpleDB: Finally Supports Sorting

Posted on July 30, 2008 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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Major S3 and SQS outage

Posted on July 21, 2008 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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SSH Tip: Redirect External Internet Traffic to a Dev Machine

Posted on July 20, 2008 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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AWS Cloud Architecture: White paper with best practices

Posted on July 20, 2008 by James Murty

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 … Continue reading →

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