Amazon SimpleDB – New Count Function, Long Running Queries, Etc. | AWS News BlogAWS News Blog Amazon SimpleDB – New Count Function, Long Running Queries, Etc. We’ve introduced two improvements to SimpleDB‘s Select API. You can now count the number of items which match a condition, and you can handle queries which take more than 5 seconds to run. The new count function is used like this: Queries which take more than 5 seconds to execute used to time out and returned no useful
