Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Use Amazon SQS to Build Self-Healing Applications

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Use Amazon SQS to Build Self-Healing Applications: "A short five minute video that describes how to use Amazon SQS to build self-healing applications by taking advantage of a unique feature of that service."

Once an application is in production, the real issues begin. This video shows you how to build a self-tending, self-healing application architecture. And as any operations person can attest, Murphy's Law dictates that it's almost always the middle of the night when things fail. By using a unique feature found in Amazon Simple Queue Service, your application can auto-restart failed components in a workflow and take up where it left off. And best of all, with some forethought this technique is easy to build into your architecture.

Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today.

Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today.: "AWS trades heavily on the fact that Amazon itself is the biggest customer. 'We tend to build the things people are asking for internally,' Jassy says. And the idea that AWS is mostly about wringing extra bucks (especially off-season) out of Amazon's data centers? 'We've far exceeded the excess capacity of our internal system,' Jassy says. 'That ship sailed 18 months ago.' For a company at which operational data is a state secret, that's a telling detail: AWS is now big enough to be piling up its own silicon."

S3 Firefox Organizer

S3 Firefox Organizer: "S3Fox Organizer for Amazon(S3Fox) v0.4: (NEW!) This firefox extension(browser plugin) provides an user friendly interface for Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service) . Its interface is very much similar to the FTP interface that lists local folders in the left panel and S3 buckets/files/folders in the right panel. Files/folders can be moved from the local computer to Amazon's storage space and vice versa. Follow the pre-requisites & steps described below to start using S3Fox Organizer.



New features in v0.4:

- Drag-n-drop support
- Ability to overwrite folders when uploaded
- Adhoc synchronization, meaning you can add a folder to 'Synchronize folders' list at the time of transfer.
- Ability to specify secure protocol
- Folder synchronization based on timestamps i.e. ability to synchronize only unchanged files"