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Query Tool for Amazon SimpleDB
Although these projects are never really finished, I can say I’ve completed version 1 of the Amazon SimpleDB Query Tool. This is built on top of a new SimpleDB API that will be part of an upcoming...
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Amazon CloudWatch with Java/typica
Recently, Amazon announced that it’s CloudWatch service went into public beta. I’ve been involved with the private beta of this and the Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling services. I’ve just...
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QueryTool 1.1, even more to like!
A number of you have requested some new features, and some of them have made it into this new release. You can now add and delete domains from within the tool. Also, clicking on results lets you copy...
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QueryTool now exports data
There are some things I’ve been wanting in the QueryTool, so I just threw them in. Here’s the list; proxy support (add proxy host and port to the command line args) sortable results table (via column...
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Amazon SimpleDB now available in the EU region
Amazon has just announced support for SimpleDB in their European data center. That means applications running in the EU will have lower latency when accessing SimpleDB. That’s good news for SimpleDB...
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A Unique Method of Authenticating against App-Managed Userlist
I have a project that uses Amazon’s SimpleDB service for data storage. Being a Java programmer, I have become fond of using JPA (Java Persistence Architecture) implementations. In some cases, I’ve used...
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Creating your own AccessId and SecretKey
When building your own web services, security has to be one of the concerns. Having worked with Amazon Web Services extensively over he past several years, I’ve become quite familiar with the Query API...
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Persistent Counters in SimpleDB
I’ve already discussed the new consistency features of Amazon SimpleDB. One of the things people have wished for in SimpleDB was a way to manage a universal counter, something similar to an...
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Connecting to the Eucalyptus Community Cloud with typica
Eucalyptus recently announced a public “cloud” sandbox known as Eucalyptus Community Cloud. It is a place where you can kick the tires to some degree and since they support a subset of the Amazon EC2...
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Automating EBS Volume Attach at Boot Time
A few years ago, I found myself attaching volumes to instances with some frequency. The volume often came from a snapshot which contained some test data. Like any lazy programmer, I didn’t want to do...
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