Contemplating the brave new present
Posted in AWS, Coding, O'Reilly Book on Apr 29th, 2008
Amazon has released an updated version of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) API with the version name
2008-02-01
. This release includes a number of new features that were not available in the
2007-08-29
version of the API that I discussed in the book Programming Amazon Web Services (PAWS). To help keep my readers up-to-date with the capabilities of [...]
Posted in AWS, O'Reilly Book on Mar 26th, 2008
I am pleased to announce that my book Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS and SimpleDB is now officially published and should soon be available from booksellers. It will hopefully prove to be a valuable resource for people who are building applications on top of Amazon’s infrastructure services, or who are considering doing [...]
Posted in AWS, O'Reilly Book on Feb 9th, 2008
Amazon have announced a new API version (2008-01-01) for the Simple Queue Service. The new API promises much cheaper usage fees for the service, but the API update includes a number of major changes that are not compatible with prior API versions.
For those already familiar with SQS, you can find a detailed list of changes [...]