With this book, you'll learn how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to "rent" computing power, data storage and bandwidth on Amazon's vast network infrastructure. Programming Web Services gives developers the background and technical detail they need for using Amazon's subscription-based Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications.

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