text: var fmt = require('fmt');
  var awssum = require('awssum');
  var amazon = awssum.load('amazon/amazon');
  var SimpleDB = awssum.load('amazon/simpledb').SimpleDB;
  
  var env             = process.env;
  var accessKeyId     = env.ACCESS_KEY_ID;
  var secretAccessKey = env.SECRET_ACCESS_KEY;
  var awsAccountId    = env.AWS_ACCOUNT_ID;
  
  var sdb = new SimpleDB({
      'accessKeyId'     : accessKeyId,
      'secretAccessKey' : secretAccessKey,
      // 'awsAccountId'    : awsAccountId, // optional
      'region'          : amazon.US_EAST_1
  });
  
  fmt.field('Region', sdb.region() );
  fmt.field('EndPoint', sdb.host() );
  fmt.field('AccessKeyId', sdb.accessKeyId().substr(0, 3) + '...' );
  fmt.field('SecretAccessKey', sdb.secretAccessKey().substr(0, 3) + '...' );
  fmt.field('AwsAccountId', sdb.awsAccountId() );
  
  // ---
  // three users
  
  var items = [ 'the-pie', 'chilts', 'ben' ];
  var attributeNames = [
      [ 'favourite-color', 'lucky-number' ],
      [ 'favourite-color', 'lucky-number' ],
      [ 'favourite-color', 'lucky-number' ],
  ];
  var attributeValues = [
      [ 'red',   2 ],
      [ 'green', 3 ],
      [ 'blue',  4 ],
  ];
  
  sdb.BatchDeleteAttributes({
      DomainName       : 'test',
      ItemName         : items,
      AttributeName    : attributeNames,
      AttributeValue   : attributeValues,
  }, function(err, data) {
      fmt.msg("putting three objects - expecting success");
      fmt.dump(err, 'Error');
      fmt.dump(data, 'Data');
  });
  