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>> So... you issue a command, and you receive a reply? And these are both
>> formatted as XML?
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> Yes. Think of it like a procedure call between machines.
So it's a way of issuing server commands without needing a human to
press the button?
>> Is the reply necessarily immediate?
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> In theory, no. In practice, yes.
Rather like the way HTTP responses are supposed to be "immediate"?
(I.e., the browser hangs if it isn't.)
> Exactly. I have a library to do just that, only it uses the REST
> interface (which isn't really REST) to do so.
What's REST then?
> 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.
Yes, I noticed that. Currently only EC2 though. (?)
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