If you are involved in a project based on a critical and extensively used database, or if you are involved in stress and load testing, data maintenance is an issue you'll come across sooner or later.
Articles - infrastructure
Connect to Amazon Web Services with right_aws
An example of how to setup the right_aws Ruby gem to connect to Amazon Web Services (S3).
Install EC2 API tools on Mac OS X Leopard
The process that I followed to install the command line Amazon EC2 API tools on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X Leopard.