Operations
The following describes components of Amazon SimpleDB operations.
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Subscriber—Any application, script, or software making a call to the Amazon SimpleDB service.
The AWS Access Key ID uniquely identifies each subscriber for billing and metering purposes.
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Amazon SimpleDB Request—A single web service API call and its associated data that the subscriber sends to the Amazon SimpleDB service to perform one or more operations.
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Amazon SimpleDB Response—The response and any results returned from the Amazon SimpleDB service to the subscriber after processing the request.
The AWS Platform handles authentication success and failure; failed requests are not sent to the Amazon SimpleDB service.