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14th December 2007 - Link Blog

Amazon SimpleDB overview. Attribute values are limited to 1,024 bytes; Amazon suggest that you store larger fields in S3 and use SimpleDB to query metadata about those objects.

Posted 14th December 2007 at 11:39 am

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