Prior to 2002, developers with a need for Amazon's product data resorted to
scraping the site. Since the site can change at any time, scraping is a
tedious and error-prone process. With the introduction of standard data
formats such as XML, XSLT, and SOAP, the foundational pieces were in place
for Amazon to provide developers with rich, robust, and structured access to
the Amazon product catalog and other components of the Amazon technology
platform. In this session, Amazon Web Services Technical Program Manager,
Jeff Barr, will review Amazon's motivation for building AWS and describe the
current set of offerings as well as demonstrate several real-world
applications.
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