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I was / am pretty sympathetic to their situation. At that point, SDB was already deprecated in favor of dynamo, and they had been asking us to move off of SDB f

I was / am pretty sympathetic to their situation. At that point, SDB was already deprecated in favor of dynamo, and they had been asking us to move off of SDB for over a year (before I had joined the company via acquisition). If someone ever does an oral history of AWS, I'm sure that SDB would be the "grand mistake" they made in their first few years. It was never ready for prime time in the way it needed to be.

kstrauser 9y ago
They still advertise it https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/ https://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/ : > Amazon SimpleDB is designed to integrate easily with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and EC2, providing the infrastructure for creating web-scale applications. If I hadn't heard your story, I wouldn't see anything there to steer me away from it.
- TheDong 9y ago
  It's not listed in the AWS console anywhere. That's enough to scare most users off I imagine.
  - kstrauser 9y ago
    Huh, you're right. They still call it out in the DynamoDB FAQs though (https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/faqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/faqs/): > While SimpleDB has scaling limitations, it may be a good fit for smaller workloads that require query flexibility.