Amazon web services

I've recently launched a Drupal 7 site using auto-scaling on AWS. The basic architecture is 2+ ELB that handle SSL, talking to multiple auto-scaled instances running nginx + php-fpm. Mostly, it's working.

I have noticed that the IP addresses logged for clients are in the 10.0.0.0/8 private network that Amazon uses. At first, I thought that HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR wasn't set, but it turns out that it is both set and correct. The problem is that settings.php wasn't set up.

I've now read the notes in setting.php, and am a bit confused.

The Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk) is a Amazon Web Service that allows site owners to outsource tasks requiring human intelligence at relatively low cost. Mturk may be used for a wide range of purposes including image labeling, transcription, categorization, and spam filtering in various fields and industries not limited to e-commerce, research, online community, social networking. In order for Drupal to fully utilize Mturk, I propose designing an easy to install module to work with Mturk from the Drupal interface.

Years ago I had an Elancer write a module for submitting Mechanical Turk jobs (HITS) from drupal nodes. I've recently updated the code and thought that others may find it useful. Right now it is fine-tuned for transcription jobs, but it could be made more generic.

This module covers only Mechanical Turk, not other Amazon services as does the AWS module.