Developing with Amazon Web Services
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is probably the best known web service from Amazon but itâs not the only one. There are other highly scalable and reliable web services that you can use in your Grails applications including the Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Queuing Service (SQS) and SimpleDB, a non-relational database. Although, using these web services couples your application to Amazon, they let you build highly scalable applications without the pain and cost of having to develop your own infrastructure.
In this session you will learn how to use these web services. We describe the various open-source Java libraries for interacting these web services including JetS3t and Typica and how to integrate them into your Grails development model. You will learn about the benefits and drawbacks of these web services and their typical uses cases.
About Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of CloudFoundry.com and works on cloud technology. He has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.
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