I was toying around with AWS (Amazon Web Services) and SimpleDB on iOS a couple weeks ago and I struggled finding a very simple example of how to go about it. There is API documentation and several abstracted libraries out there but I wanted something really really basic. I was surprised to not find anything at all. I eventually figured it out so I thought I'd put this out there for anyone who might want to get a quick start.

So here goes. This is not the best way to code but it is the simplest. Don't forget to replace the access key and secret key below. Code has been tested in xcode5 and ios7 only.