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InfoWorld - Connecting your application into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) isn't complicated, particularly if you've done Web service programming on other projects.

San Francisco - Connecting your application into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) isn't complicated, particularly if you've done Web service programming on other projects. Before you begin, you'll need to obtain access credentials. If you already have an account with Amazon, you can easily extend it to include access to Amazon Web Services. You sign up for each service separately and, in the process, acquire access credentials. These credentials are used to create digital signatures required in requests made to any of the paid AWS components. Amazon services also accept X.509 certificates. Amazon can create a certificate for you when you subscribe to a service, or you can create your own and upload it to Amazon. Once you have your access credentials settled, you can begin working with the services themselves. Amazon's online developer materials appear to slightly favor Java over other languages. But only slightly. While all the command-line tools for EC2 are written in Java, AWS tutorials exist for Ruby, PHP, and C#. In addition, several scratchpad applications written in HTML + JavaScript provide "live" interaction with individual Amazon Web services. [ For an in-depth exploration of AWS, please read "Diving deep into Amazon Web Services." ] For example, download the SQS JavaScript scratchpad from the SQS developer site, launch it in a browser, and you're presented with... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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