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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. Re:Showing their cards at last by base3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And he forgot "The cloud is just another name for timesharing." The 1960s called; it wants it glass house computing model back.

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    One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
  2. Re:Showing their cards at last by slim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Cloud is just a buzz word. It makes non-techies feel clued in without having to understand the differences among a handful of technologies and how they work together.

    At first I thought you were contradicting me. But you're not, necessarily.

    "Cake is just a buzz word. It makes non-bakers feel clued in without having to understand the differences among a handful of ingredients and how they work together."

    Combine eggs, flour, baking powder, sugar, flavourings, in just the right recipe, you get a cake.
    Combine datacenter technogolies, virtualisation, parallelisation, timesharing, web based management, in just the right recipe, and you get a cloud.

    This doesn't mean that "cake" or "cloud" aren't useful shorthands.