Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free

Re:Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free by euroclydon on Friday October 02, 2009 @09:22PM (#858352)

That's a pretty substantial service to offer for free and it seems you can access it from Javascript too. I wonder if it would violate their terms of service to write an application where each user had their own Simple DB account?

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Re:Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free by jeffbarr on Friday October 02, 2009 @09:49PM (#858373)

This would be perfectly acceptable, come on in!

You would have to ask each new user to create an AWS account (also free) and then enter their credentials (public key and private key). If you are building a browser-based app you need to protect the credentials from prying eyes/code.

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Re:Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free by anamax on Saturday October 03, 2009 @01:28PM (#858945)

> If you are building a browser-based app you need to protect the credentials from prying eyes/code.

Isn't this the problem that oauth is intended to solve?

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Re:Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free by jrockway on Saturday October 03, 2009 @03:56PM (#859092)

But having web users bring their own database is not the problem that AWS is trying to solve.

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Re:Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free by qhoxie on Friday October 02, 2009 @10:36PM (#858427)

There are actually some backup services that leverage S3 and require customers to have their own accounts. It seems to work quite well as a model.

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