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In Part 1 of this introduction to SimpleDB, you will learn how to leverage Amazon's own API to model a CRUD-style racing app. In Part 2 Learn how to refactor the racing application from Part 1 to be compliant with the JPA specification. Then you'll port the app to SimpleJPA, which implements a subset of the Java Persistence API.

Amazon SimpleDB (SDB) is a fast, scalable real-time dataset indexing and querying framework that makes it easy to store and retrieve structured data for Amazon Web Services-based applications in the cloud. In this article, learn some of the basic concepts of Amazon Cloud computing and check out some of the functions provided by the third-party open source Python library named boto. You will get familiar with Amazon Cloud computing and SDB by running small snippets of boto code in a Python shell.