AWS refers to Amazon Web Services.

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Updating a video's view count. Should this happen client-side or server-side?

I built an iOS app similar to Vine, where a user can scroll a feed of videos that auto play. All of these video have a View_Count field in the backend to keep track of how many times the video has ...
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What are the best practices of scaling small scale webservices in AWS?

I've deployed an entreprise app in AWS, in the first time i was hosting it in t2.micro, the app is intensivily used in 15 minutes a day, with some light queries in work hours during the day, after ...
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How to connect mean.js to AWS S3

I am trying see how I can upload images and file to aws S3 via the mean.js framework. I am not sure how the backend is linked to S3. There are no resources online about this specific framework and ...
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Is there any harm in using amazon AWS as a development environment? [closed]

What modifications do I need to make to my workflow, and which skills do I need to learn in order to develop with Ruby On Rails on a Linux cloud server on Amazon Web Services (AWS)? In particular, I ...
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Will hosting documents on AWS reduce our load?

Due to partnerships, we are required to host our website through our partner company. However, we had an idea that perhaps we could offload the document storage to an AWS document server. The ...
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Implementing distributed Semaphore for AWS workload

We have a messaging gateway in AWS (Amazon Cloud) that comprises of a number of nodes (Linux servers) responsible for receiving, routing, despatching and escalating messages (emails, SMS' and voice ...
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Backing up messages in S3 within a Storm topology

In my project we are trying to build up a KIND-of-a-lambda storm based architecture. The component would be responsible for indexing the site usage events so we expect a quite massive random load. The ...
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Best way to notify the client in real time that their queue (e.g. SQS) job has finished?

Current Scenario Our application allows users to upload (Amazon S3) and manage their files through our interface. Currently those users can download the files directly from S3/Cloudfront through our ...
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Building a distributed system on Amazon Web Services

Would simply using AWS to build an application make this application a distributed system? For example if someone uses RDS for the database server, EC2 for the application itself and S3 for hosting ...