Using SimpleDB, any organization can leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's powerful cloud-based computing platform–and dramatically reduce the cost and resources associated with application infrastructure. Now, for the first time, there’s a complete developer’s guide to building production solutions with Amazon SimpleDB. Pioneering developer Mocky Habeeb brings together all the hard-to-find information you need to succeed. Habeeb tours the SimpleDB platform and APIs, explains their essential characteristics and tradeoffs, and helps you determine whether your applications are appropriate for SimpleDB. Next, he walks you through all aspects of writing, deploying, querying, optimizing, securing, and troubleshooting Amazon SimpleDB applications–from the basics through advanced techniques. Throughout, he draws on his unsurpassed experience supporting developers on Simple DB’s official web forums. He offers practical tips and answers that can’t be found anywhere else, and presents extensive working, downloadable sample code–from snippets to complete applications.