Amazon SimpleDB - Create session

Declaration

Description:

Creates a unique session which can be used to associate subsequent Amazon SimpleDB steps. This provides a single task the ability to execute multiple SimpleDB operations, each set of operations associated to a specific session.

IMPORTANT: SimpleDB activities use Amazon's SimpleDB engine to perform their work, therefore, launching and operating Amazon SimplDB through requires a valid Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.

Practical Usage

Ideally used to create a session to correlate subsequent Amazon SimpleDB activities to. Creating a session eliminates having to re-enter specific requirements for each activity. A single task can include multiple sessions. To end a session, use the End Session activity.

Parameters

Credentials

Property	Type	Required	Default	Markup	Description
Access key	Text	Yes if connection is host-based	(Empty)	ACCESSKEY= "022QF06E7MXBSH9DHM02"	A 20-character alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies the owner of the AWS service account, similar to a username. This key along with a corresponding secret access key forms a secure information set that AWS uses to confirm a valid user's identity. This parameter is active only if the Connection parameter is set to Host.
Secret Access key	Text	Yes if connection is host-based	(Empty)	SECRETKEY= "kWcrlUX5JEDGM/LtmEENI/ aVmYvHNif5zB+d9+ct"	A 40-character string that serves the role as password to access the AWS service account. This along with an associated access key forms a secure information set that SQS uses to confirm a valid user's identity. This parameter is active only if the Connection parameter is set to Host.
Session	Text	Yes if connection is session-based	SQSSession1	SESSION="SimpleDBSession1"	Specifies the session name to create for this activity. Subsequent SimpleDB activities can be linked to this session allowing several SimpleDB operations (that may contain multiple activities) to be performed within a single task. The default session name is 'SimpleDBSession1'. NOTE: Make sure to use an End session activity to mark the end a particular session.

Advanced

Property	Type	Required	Default	Markup	Description
User agent	Text	No	AutoMate	USERAGENT="AutoMate"	The name of the client or application initiating requests to AWS, which in this case, is AutoMate. This parameter's default value is 'AutoMate'.
Service URL	Text	No	(Empty)	SERVICEURL= "https://sdb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com"	The URL that provides the service endpoint. To make the service call to a different region, you can pass the region-specific endpoint URL. For example, entering https://sdb.us-west-1.amazonaws.com points to US West (Northern California) region. A complete list of SQS regions, along with their associated endpoints and valid protocols can be found below under SimpleDB Endpoints and Regions.
Maximum retry on error	Number	No	(Empty)	MAXERRORRETRY="4"	The total amount of times this activity should retry its request to the server before returning an error. Network components can generate errors anytime in the life of a request, thus, implementing retries can increase reliability.
Proxy host	Text	No	(Empty)	PROXYHOST="proxy.host.com"	The host name (e.g.,server.domain.com) or IP address (e.g.,xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) of the proxy server to use when connecting to AWS.
Proxy port	Number	No	(Empty)	PROXYPORT="1028"	The port that should be used to connect to the proxy server.
Proxy username	Text	No	(Empty)	PROXYUSER="username"	The username that should be used to authenticate connection with the proxy server (if required).
Proxy password	Text	No	(Empty)	PROXYPWD="encrypted"	The password that should be used to authenticate connection with the proxy server (if required).
Signature method	Text	No	(Empty)	SIGNMETHOD="HmacSHA256"	The signature method to use for signing the request. This provides a valid hashing algorithm for signature calculation. Acceptable AWS signature methods are HmacSHA1 and HmacSHA256.
Signature version	Number	No	(Empty)	SIGNVERSION="2"	The signature version for signing the request. Valid AWS signature versions are 2 and 4. The difference with version 4 is that it allows you to sign your message using a key that is derived from your secret access key rather than using the secret access key itself.

Description

Error Causes

On Error

SimpleDB Endpoints and Regions

This table contains a complete list of Amazon Simple Queue Service endpoints, along with their corresponding regions and supported protocols.

Endpoint	Region	Protocol
sdb.amazonaws.com	US East (Northern Virginia) Region	HTTP and HTTPS
sdb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com	US West (Oregon) Region	HTTP and HTTPS
sdb.us-west-1.amazonaws.com	US West (Northern California) Region	HTTP and HTTPS
sdb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com	EU (Ireland) Region	HTTP and HTTPS
sdb.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com	Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region	HTTP and HTTPS
sdb.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com	Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region	HTTP and HTTPS
sdb.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com	Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region	HTTP and HTTPS
sdb.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com	South America (Sao Paulo) Region	HTTP and HTTPS

Example

NOTE: The sample AML code below can be copied and pasted directly into the Steps panel of the Task Builder.

Description: Create SimpleDB session. AWS access key is "AKIAJU2LHMMG6BA6BZTA".

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Last modified: 28-Jun-19 at 14:01:12