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Developing with Amazon Web Services

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is probably the best known web service from Amazon but it’s 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, architect and mentor with over 20 years of experience and is the author of the recently published book "POJOs in Action". He runs a consulting company that helps development teams become more productive and successful by adopting POJOs and lightweight frameworks. Chris has been a technical leader at a variety of companies including Insignia Solutions and BEA Systems. Chris has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England. He lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children. More About Chris »