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A few months back, Amazon announced that all requests to the Product Advertising API must be signed starting August 15th. We have had several people contact us asking for assistance migrating their applications’ API requests to use the new signing protocol. With the deadline coming up fast, we wanted to remind anyone who hasn’t modified their application that their requests will be invalid starting August 15th. We are more than happy to assist with the migration, but we have also written up a tutorial on how to sign your requests that might be useful.

All the Best,
The Cloud Carpenters Team

Hello World,

This is Ian speaking, and I just want to write a little bit about what we are doing here at Cloud Carpenters. Our team has been making websites and web applications for some time now. We have been doing so for our respective employers as well as personal projects and have worked with varying amounts of resources. When Amazon Web Services (AWS) came out in beta we immediately jumped on it, not because we wanted to be in the “clouds”, but because we wanted affordable, scalable hosting with full control over our machines. We instantly recognized that this was a platform that could support our pet projects cheaply and easily scale if and when they take off. After David moved the startup he works for from managed hosting to mostly AWS (EC2 and S3) cutting monthly costs by a sizable amount, we realized that there are many people in the same boat as us. So we decided to get on a plane, and now we are starting this company to get those people, you, on that plane too.

We have been posting tutorials to help get you started with AWS and we will be releasing more. We know we aren’t the only ones trying to save money and make applications that have global reach so feel free to follow us on twitter or contact us directly to start a conversation about anything AWS related.

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