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Amazon SimpleDB Grows Up
- DocSavage 18y agoThe price reduction to $0.25 per GB/month puts it much closer to App Engine datastore's expected pricing of $0.15 - $0.18 per GB/month.
- chime 18y agoI can't wait till they support SELECT like statements. Who knows, even an ODBC driver some day?
- ntoshev 18y agoThere is a reason cloud services do not support full SQL - relational storage doesn't scale.
- chime 18y agoI know that. But I find that a lot of my projects end up with 5-10GB database tables that I would rather not host myself. SimpleDB could fill my need quite well if I didn't have to rewrite all my apps to work with SimpleDB and instead could just change my SQL statements to work with Amazon. Think of it like a simplistic MySQL server that never goes down or has no scaling problems. The way SimpleDB is now is good but requires significant rewrites to existing applications that use any SQL backend.
- ntoshev 18y agoThen you should probably install MySQL on an EC2 instance with EBS attached. You need some rewriting even when you port to another relational db vendor. Amazon is definitely not headed towards administration-free experience, it aims for flexibility instead.
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- charlesju 18y agoIs this down for anyone else?
- incomethax 18y agoDown for me too http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/11/amazon-simpledb-grows-up.html http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/... Says its down for everyone.
- peter123 18y agoLooks like the post was taken down. Maybe it was posted by mistake.
- ropiku 18y agoGoogle reader caught it, here's a link from my shared items: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/10769756911853394104 http://www.google.com/reader/shared/10769756911853394104. They are saying that they are opening the beta to everyone, offering limited free usage (500MB, 25 machine-hours) and that they reduced the pricing to $0.25 per GB per month. It's limited to 100 domains with 10GB each.
- cconstantine 18y agoThis is something that's always confused me with Amazon's EC2 pricing. If I were to run an instance for my personal use it would, for the post part, have to be up 24/7 but it would be idle for the vast majority of that time. Would I be charged for 24*31 hours? If so, those 25 free machine hours are fairly worthless.
- sethg 18y agoYes, I think you would be charged for those hours. If you need a server up 24/7 then EC2 is not the right provider for you; you should be looking at a more conventional hosting companies (Linode and Slicehost have already been mentioned here). EC2 is for people who expect they will need an extra server (or two, or ten) up for one (or two, or ten) hours out of every week, and for the rest of the week they don't care if that server is effectively turned off.
- cconstantine 18y agoThis is what I was afraid of. I'm playing around with a couple toy webapps at appengine because it's free, and I'd like to do the same with ec2. I really don't want to accidentally leave it 'on' and get a bill so I''ll continue avoiding it.
- ropiku 18y agoEC2 isn't free but it's pretty cheap, it starts from 0.10$/h. If you follow the tutorials on EC2 you'll see that it's pretty well explained how you see your running instances and how to stop them. There is also elasticfox, a Firefox plugin to manage your instances (and other complex commercial management tools)