Amazon Web Services Blog: New Version of ECS Released

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New Version of ECS Released

I just received word that a new version of the Amazon E-Commerce Service has been released. Here are the newest features:

Ability to search the Amazon.com Industrial & Scientific Products catalog.
A new search index, All, with the ability to perform a keyword search on all product categories with up to 5 pages of results.
Ability to search using 13-digit ISBNs.

There are also a handful of bug fixes. Read the ECS Release Notes for more information.

-- Jeff;

January 18, 2007 in Announcements | Permalink