Programming Amazon Web Services

API Libraries

These libraries offer API implementations that allow developers to build software that uses Amazon’s services without having to implement the API themselves.

Amazon provides a large set of API implementations with samples available in a range of languages for each service interface. Samples are provided for languages including Ruby, Python, Java, Perl, PHP, and C#. Amazon’s sample implementations are not always the most robust or feature-packed implementations available, but they serve as good examples for API developers.

Third-party developers have also provided APIs for a huge range of platforms and languages. There are too many libraries to list every one in this section, but you can find them all in the AWS Resource Center.

Multiple Services

boto

http://code.google.com/p/boto

An integrated interface to infrastructure services offered by AWS, including S3, SQS, EC2, SimpleDB, and Mechanical Turk

Language: Python

API Support: REST / Query

Licensing: Open source

erlaws

http://code.google.com/p/erlaws

A collection of client implementations for S3, SQS, and SDB

Language: Erlang

Licensing: New BSD License

IBiz S3 Integator

http://www.nsoftware.com/ibiz/s3

Library components for accessing S3 and SQS resources

Language: Java, PHP, C/C++/C#, VB/VB.NET, and ASP.NET

Licensing: Proprietary

RightScale AWS gems

http://rightaws.rubyforge.org

Ruby interfaces to the EC2, S3, and SQS services

Language: Ruby

Licensing: Open source

Typica

http://code.google.com/p/typica

A Java client library for Amazon’s ...