Emlyn, that comes up quite a bit. We've been exploring ways to allow developers to do precisely that with encryption keys.
When you mentioned controlling EC2 instances, it reminded me of this: http://javagoogleappspot.blogspot.com/2010/10/control-your-ec2-instance-with-google.html -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Emlyn <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd love to hear people's experiences with controlling amazon ec2 > instances from appengine. Is anyone doing it? Any hints for best > practices? I've come across the python library Boto > (http://code.google.com/p/boto/) for talking to amazon; is that the > right tool for the job? > > Also, and this comes up again and again with AppEngine, what do you do > when you need to store any kind of private key in AppEngine? Is there > any better practise than plain text in the datastore, which isn't just > security by obscurity? > > -- > Emlyn > > http://my.syyn.cc - Synchonise Google+, Facebook, WordPress and Google > Buzz posts, > comments and all. > http://point7.wordpress.com - My blog > Find me on Facebook and Buzz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
