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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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