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   by _alex_ 11y ago

   Both DynamoDB and SimpleDB have free tiers. credstash can happily live in the free tier until you are using it A LOT (more than 25 fetches/second, sustained). Storage in SimpleDB costs about as much per GB as DDB, but DDB gives you mor
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   by _alex_ 11y ago

   According to the doc revision history: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonSimpleDB/latest/DeveloperGu... the last update to the developer guide was 2012. According to the release notes: http://aws.amazon.
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   by _alex_ 11y ago

   The page is still up, and AWS is obviously still running the service (and will as long as customers keep using it), but it's not linked from anywhere. Here's a list of all the AWS services ( https://aws.amazon.com/p
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   by _alex_ 11y ago

   SimpleDB is deprecated, more expensive than DDB, and kind of weird to use. Backing your keystore with a deprecated service just sounds like a road to many sleepless nights ;) The utility does depend on three external services: DynamoDB, KMS
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   Show HN: Credstash – A tiny python utility for managing secrets in EC2(github.com)

   69 points by _alex_ 11y ago|14 comments
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   by _alex_ 12y ago

   doesn't appstream require that the app is appstream-aware? my understanding is that you can't just take an arbitrary windows binary an appstream-ify it. The VPN solution might have worse performance than an appstream app, but it w