Amazon Announces Mobile SDKs for its Web Services

Amazon Web Services the website hosting division of the online retailer has launched two mobile SDKs for use by Andoid and Apple devices. The mobile SDKs make it easier for software developers to call an AWS web service API directly from a mobile application.

Previously, developers either wrote their own libraries to handle the HTTP connection, request retries, and error handling, or built additional infrastructure to proxy the API requests through a server fleet.

With the mobile SDKs, developers can write software that uses AWS infrastructure in their mobile applications, including:

• Storage - Store and retrieve data using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
• Database - Add a highly available, scalable, and flexible non-relational data store using Amazon SimpleDB with little or no administrative burden.
• Messaging - integrate reliable, highly scalable mobile-to-mobile communication into applications using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), and Amazon Simple Notifications Service (Amazon SNS).

See all resources for mobile development at http://aws.amazon.com/mobile.