Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> So... you issue a command, and you receive a reply? And these are both 
> formatted as XML?

Yes. Think of it like a procedure call between machines.

> Is the reply necessarily immediate?

In theory, no. In practice, yes.

> If I'm understanding this correctly, that means that you can make Amazon 
> start or stop a virtual server by sending a lump of XML to it over HTTP. 
> Is that about right?

Exactly.  I have a library to do just that, only it uses the REST interface 
(which isn't really REST) to do so.

Also, http://console.aws.amazon.com/ lets you do it all from a web browser, 
or so they just announced. I haven't tried it.

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