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Amazon Wants To Run Your High-Performance Databases

Posted by samzenpus on from the let-us-do-that dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "Amazon is pushing hard to be as ubiquitous in the world of cloud computing as it is in bookselling. The company's latest pitch is that even your highest-performing databases will run more efficiently on Amazon Web Services cloud servers than on your own hardware. Farming out your most important and potentially sensitive computing work to one of the most opaque tech companies out there: what could possibly go wrong?"

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  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Due to my high performance AWS posting station.

  2. Re:Over my fucking dead body by Thanshin · · Score: 3, Funny

    So... the "Over" was figurative?

  3. Re:Could we can the marketing crap? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could we, at least here, avoid the whole marketing lingo?

    But Dude! How will we proactively leverage our infrastructure emplacement in world-centric roll-outs, and obtain niche market ubiquity? We're not going to do that with mere synergy based breakthroughs in the cloud!

    --
    The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
  4. Re:Over my fucking dead body by jratcliffe · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I mean "my", "fucking", "dead" and "body" literally.

    So, if Amazon wants your clients' business, all it needs to find is a mudering necrophile?