Third-Party AWS Solutions

There are a growing number of applications and services based on AWS that offer extra functionality or improved ease of use compared to the standard services. In this listing we concentrate on the third-party solutions that could help you build and manage your own AWS-based applications, or those that provide user-friendly interfaces to the underlying service.

ElasticDrive

http://www.elasticdrive.com

Makes your S3 storage available as a Linux block device for remote storage or backup, intended primarily to be used in EC2

Platform: Linux

Pricing: Free and fee-based versions

ELASTRA Infinite Database

http://www.elastra.com

Use S3 as a permanent data store for relational databases running on EC2

Platform: Linux

Pricing: Fee-based

GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform

http://www.gigaspaces.com

A platform for running stateful applications in EC2 using S3 for storage

Platform: Linux

Pricing: Free (for start-ups) and fee-based versions

Lifeguard

http://code.google.com/p/lifeguard

A tool for automating management of applications deployed in EC2 that receive work through SQS queues; it will dynamically resize the pool of instances based on the application’s performance

Platform: Java program

Pricing: Free (open source)

NaviSite Monitoring and Alerting

https://shop.navisite.com/aws

Remote monitoring and alerting services for applications running on EC2 and S3

Platform: Hosted service

Pricing: Fee-based

PersistentFS

http://www.persistentfs.com

Makes your S3 storage available as a POSIX-compliant file system mounted on an EC2 instance

Platform: Linux

Pricing: Fee-based

RightScale

http://www.rightscale.com

A platform for creating, managing, and scaling applications built on Amazon’s EC2, S3, and SQS services; the platform provides graphical interfaces for monitoring and interacting with the services

Platform: Internet application

Pricing: Free and fee-based versions

InfiniteBits

http://www.infiniteftp.info

A service that makes the contents of S3 accounts available via an FTP server, hosted by the company or on your own EC2 server

Platform: Any platform with FTP client software

Pricing: Fee-based

Jungle Disk

http://www.jungledisk.com

Access your S3 storage via a network disk share (WebDAV) on your computer

Platform: Windows, Mac, and Linux

Pricing: Fee-based

S3Drive

http://www.suchwerk.net/sodcms_AMAZON_S3DRIVE.htm

Access your S3 storage available as a Windows shared disk

Platform: Windows / .NET

Pricing: Free

.netCHARGE

http://www.dotnetcharge.com

An ASP.NET payment processing component that supports Amazon.com’s Flexible Payments Service, among other payment services

Platform: ASP.NET component

Pricing: Fee-based

Jungle Payments

http://www.junglepayments.com

Accepts credit and debit card payments from customers via Amazon Payments on your behalf

Platform: Internet application

Pricing: Free