One of the major offerings from Amazon Web Service (AWS) is Simple DB, similar to Google’s bigtable, which is not a relational database. Some people have managed to migrated their applications to SDB in order to move their application to the Amazon cloud. Many other people who could not/would not convert their relational DB back-end to SDB installed MySQL on the EC2 instances instead, then again, they started to worry about how to persist the data directory on Amazon EBS. It was some additional pain indeed.
Nice thing is that Amazon today announced Amazon Relational DB Service(rdf), based on MySQL. Now people do not have to google the “best practice” to persist on EBS without compromising performance. Hopefully this will drive more people to Amazon’s AWS.
