aws

It permits developers to interact with various AWS services from inside a Ruby-powered app.

Features:

• Complete error handling
• Persistent HTTP connections
• Robust HTTP-level retry layer
• The number of retries is user-configurable
• Fast REXML-based parsing of responses
• Uses libxml (if available) for faster response parsing
• Support for large S3 list operations
• Support for streaming GETs from S3, and streaming PUTs to S3 if the data source is a file
• Support for single-threaded usage, multi-threaded usage, as well as usage with multiple AWS accounts
• Support for both first- and second-generation SQS
• Support for signature versions 0, 1 and 2 on all services
• Interoperability with any cloud running Eucalyptus
• Test suite
• Documentation
• Supported services:
• EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
• EBS (Elastic Block Store)
• Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
• Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service)
• Amazon SDB (SimpleDB)
• Amazon CloudFront (content distribution service)
• Amazon Load Balancing
• Amazon CloudWatch (monitoring service)
• AWS Identity and Access Management

Requirements:

• Amazon AWS API credentials
• REXML