Monthly Archives: December 2008

AWS Security Update: Signature Version 2 for AWS Query APIs

Amazon has announced an improved request signature protocol for authenticating HTTP requests sent to SimpleDB, to Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), or to the Simple Queue Service (SQS). The new protocol, version 2, fixes a security flaw in the version 1 … Continue reading

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SDB Tool: A New Firefox Plugin for Amazon's Simple DB

A handy new graphical tool for working with the Amazon Simple DB service has been announced on the AWS Blog. SDB Tool is a Firefox plugin for querying and updating your Simple DB database domains. The tool is very functional, … Continue reading

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XMLBuilder : Easily build XML documents in Java

I have long been irked by the difficulty of creating simple XML documents in Java code. While Java has excellent support for handling XML in general, if you just need to whip up a quick document — say, to interact … Continue reading

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EC2 Now in the EU

The eagle-eyed folks at RightScale have spotted a new EC2 feature guide document describing the long-anticipated release of Amazon EC2 Regions. In short, EC2 is now available in the EU region, with potentially more regions to follow. This is great … Continue reading

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Amazon DevPay Leaves Beta

Amazon’s DevPay service graduated recently from beta to general availability, which means that it is now easier for companies in the United States to build a business based on Amazon Web Services. DevPay allows you to sell your own applications … Continue reading

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SimpleDB Now Open to the Public, with Improvements

Amazon’s SimpleDB online data storage and querying service is now in unlimited public beta, which means that you can sign up for the service and have your account activated immediately. Previously, new users had to wait an indeterminate amount of … Continue reading

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