Tue 3 Apr 2007
Amazon just added NAT to their EC2 service. It also sounds like they will be turning the old direct addressing scheme off soon. This is probably a step towards assigning static IPs to your hosts in EC2. It may even allow you to have EC2 instances with no external IP address at all. It makes sense to not use an external IP when all you are doing is processing data from S3 and then sticking it back into S3. You can read more about the NAT change here.
Fri 12 Jan 2007
I've been playing around with the EC2 service at Amazon and figured I would document a little about how you create your own FC6 AMI. The Amazon documentation goes over everything you need to know about creating your own FC4 AMI and if you don't want to roll your own you can use one of the public AMIs. Amazon just started letting people publish their own AMIs on their site so you should expect to see more as time goes by.
Thu 1 Jun 2006
After reading this post on the S3 forum I realized that other people are thinking about doing some of the same stuff I have. paolonew was looking for a way to for a way to create URLs to S3 objects that expired. I did this a while back when I was thinking about how to host objects that I wanted to protect with some outside scheme. The confusion on the forum seemed to be about the timestamps used to expire the URL. For PHP it is fairly easy.
