Comments on: Amazon Web Services releases new Relational Database Service for MySQL in the Cloud

By: Amazon Offers MySQL in the Cloud

Amazon Offers MySQL in the Cloud — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:20:47 +0000

[...] Mark Bao writes that Amazon RDS “could be very disruptive” but raises questions on performance. “RDS opens an important question while on the topic of database speed optimization: it scales up well, great: but how is the performance between webservers and the new RDS storage location?,” Bao writes. “It’s an open question and we’ll see how it plays out when people mess around with it.” [...]

By: kevinelliott

kevinelliott — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:18:27 +0000

I too am curious to see how data accessed from DB instances across locations will work, or if there is a way to force connections between tiers to stay “local.” If that's the case, what kind of replication features will be available to ensure data is consistent across major regions.

By: netspencer

netspencer — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:04:02 +0000

This is cool.

By: kevinelliott

kevinelliott — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:18:27 +0000

By: netspencer

netspencer — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:04:02 +0000

This is cool.