Well they're just starting out and I guess that's where the obvious potential is. The screencast didn't get me so excited either. Mostly because of the guy rav

Well they're just starting out and I guess that's where the obvious potential is. The screencast didn't get me so excited either. Mostly because of the guy raving off in that annoying marketing slang over the most basic features, without answering any of the interesting questions. For example he praises the ability to make queries from the web frontend and the visualization of the mysql logfiles as "enterprise features" - Oh c'mon boy. More interesting would have been to learn more about that magic "server size" slider that goes from 1-256. Will that select the amazon instance type, mysql configuration, EBS size, or what does it do? From what I can see they built a pretty frontend that lets you launch customized AMI images with a mysql installation. I sure hope there's more about it because this alone would take little more than 4 weeks to clone... (We built a similar frontend for our own EC2 postgres cluster, so this is a bit more than an educated guess).