ah right. that said, it does remove one layer of complexity for the people who just want cloud-based DBs. before now we would have to either sign up with a 3r

ah right. that said, it does remove one layer of complexity for the people who just want cloud-based DBs. before now we would have to either sign up with a 3rd party who would pipe data to Amazon, or manually configure EC2 instances - neither of which I particularly wanted to mess with. I definitely want to give this a whirl.