Amazon delivers the golden egg - RDS
was only a matter of time for the mysql db to be in the cloud properly.
Amazon RDS provides a fully featured MySQL database, so the code, applications, and tools that you use today with your existing MySQL databases work in Amazon RDS without modification. The service automatically handles common database administration tasks, such as setup and provisioning, patch management, and backup. You also have the flexibility to scale the compute and storage resources associated with your database instance through a simple API call. Like all AWS infrastructure services, Amazon RDS is easy to deploy and simple to manage. Here are some highlights for Amazon RDS
can i get a 'yay' - now if only they had custom versions of a really really lightweight hypertuned OS image. like a really custom nginx, memcached, php, zend image the dream would be complete. really good news thou to have something like this now in the cloud.
