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Amazon Cloud Adds Hosted MySQL

Posted by timothy on from the toss-your-data-here dept.

1sockchuck writes "Amazon Web Services has added a relational database service to host MySQL databases in the cloud, and is also dropping prices on its Amazon EC2 compute service by as much as 15 percent. Amazon says the new service lets users focus on development rather than maintenance, but it will probably be bad news for startups offering database services built atop Amazon's cloud. Cloud Avenue warns that Amazon RDS should serve as 'a warning bell for the companies that build their entire business on Amazon ecosystem. ... They are just one announcement away from complete destruction.' Data Center Knowledge has a roundup of analysis and commentary on Amazon RDS and its impact on the cloud ecosystem."

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  1. I did some maths by ionix5891 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I run a site larger than slashdot

    it costs 150 euro a month for an 8core xeon server with 16GB ram

    it would cost me well over 1500 dollars for same to be hosted on Amazon

    lol!

    1. Re:I did some maths by ionix5891 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      interesting thanks @ac, anyone else feel to correct my back of napkin calculations

  2. Re:A Little Disappointed by plague3106 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    For a first step, MySQL was the obvious choice and it shows a move in the right direction.

    How? MySql is barely a database, and certainly not one I'd trust with anything important.