PUBLIC MARKS with tags library & amazon

Libcloud is a standard client library for many popular cloud providers, written in python. Exactly what I talked about a few weeks ago when asking for a common API to all cloud server providers. Now search for a way to convert / move an image from one provider to another !

The SOA Operating Platform is starting to emerge. Get your CPU cycles from a supplier like Sun, get your network attached storage and queuing infrastructure from someone like Amazon, get your mapping application services from someone like Google, get your payment services from someone like PayPal, get your Library Domain specific Web Services from someone like Talis. Who, other than the core utility processing, storage, and queuing service providers, needs to invest in infrastructure anymore?

I'd never published the code, so I've included it below.

As more and more books are stored in depositories, people miss the serendipity of browsing among shelves and discovering books that they don ’t know they’d like to read. An integration of Amazon and libraries would harness great power.

Ruby/Amazon is a Ruby language library that allows programmatic access to the popular Amazon Web site via the REST (XML over HTTP) based Amazon Web Services. In addition to the original amazon.com site, the amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.ca, and amazon.co.jp properties are also supported.