I am working on a site (ASP.NET MVC) that will ultimately display millions of book. I already have the titles and authors of these books in my MySQL database.
The goal is when a user searches for book, the top 20 matches (title and author) will appear on the page. I then plan to use the Amazon API to get more information (isbn, image, description etc) for these 20 books and flesh out these items via Ajax. I would then also add this info to MySQL so next time these specific books are requested, I already have the data.
My question is what Amazon Web Service should I use? There are so many like Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB etc. I just don’t know which would be best for my needs. Cost is also a factor.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
The API you’re looking for is Amazon’s Product Advertising API:
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html