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Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy
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Host Your Web Site In The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy

by Jeffrey Barr
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
8h 58m
English
SitePoint
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Preface

In the spring of 2002, I logged in to my Amazon Associates account one day and saw a little box on the landing page with the magic words: “Amazon Now Has XML!” Amazon had exposed many aspects of its product catalog in XML form. Coupled with the Amazon Associates program, enterprising developers could download the data, use it to create a marketing site, and then earn commissions by sending traffic to the main Amazon.com site.

I thought this was fairly interesting and dived right in. I downloaded the documentation, wrote some code, and was impressed. I saw plenty of promise, but also plenty of room for improvement, so I wrote it all up and sent it to a feedback email address that they’d provided for this purpose.

One situation led ...

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