Amazon Simple Queue Service

Amazon Simple Queue Service(ASQS) 并不提供对 Amazon.com 的数据库 的访问，而是让您可以利用 Amazon.com 的技术 来构建应用程序。

正如您可能从它的名称中所推断出来的，ASQS 是一个队列系统。队列系统 允许应用程序使用消息传递范例：并不直接地相互通话，应用程序将相互之间的消息（数据）放到一个被称作队列 的简单数据库中。在这种情况下，队列运行在 Amazon 自己的计算机上并且强调可靠性和可伸缩性。这些队列是通过 Web 服务公开的。

Components

• Buckets

A bucket is simply a container for objects stored in Amazon S3.

• Objects

Every object is contained within a bucket.

• Keys

A key is the unique identifier for an object within a bucket.

Example: object named photos/allen.jpg is stored in the huihoo bucket, then it is addressable using the URL

Operations

• Create a Bucket
• Write an Object
• Read an Object
• Deleting an Object
• Listing Keys

API

• REST

The REST API is an HTTP interface to Amazon S3.

• SOAP

http://doc.s3.amazonaws.com/2006-03-01/AmazonS3.wsdl

Docs

• Getting Started Guide: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/gsg/
• Developer Guide: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/2006-03-01/

Links

• http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=8