Comments on: Amazon Web Services launches SimpleDB Beta

By: cbmeeks

cbmeeks — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:18:01 +0000

I for one, can’t wait to see how it performs.

I do get annoyed at the people who complain because of it’s lack of features or that it’s not a full RDBMS.

Er…Simple remember??

By: courtney benson

courtney benson — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:57:43 +0000

Very interesting!- If you can get a real person to pick up the phone and help you if there’s a problem instead of having to get a major law firm track one down in the event of a problem, or if it does not cost you 10 times what it could have if you’d installed your own software, and maintained it yourself, I’d say what a great offering

By: Amazon: Building the cloud - - mathewingram.com/work

Amazon: Building the cloud - - mathewingram.com/work — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:26:21 +0000

[...] don’t need to know what either of those do, but what’s interesting is that they are the building blocks of a “cloud computing” model of the kind that Sun Microsystems co-founder and former [...]

By: Zougg Blog » Amazon SimpleDB / SDS

Zougg Blog » Amazon SimpleDB / SDS — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:41:28 +0000

[...] new service undoubtedly generated quite a bit of enthusiasm: O’Reilly,TechCrunch…. For some, this is the long awaited “database” in the cloud and is seen as Amazon’s [...]

By: Amazon SimpleDB 101 & Why It Matters - GigaOM

Amazon SimpleDB 101 & Why It Matters - GigaOM — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:22:23 +0000

[...] PM PT Comments (0) Amazon continues to amaze us with its Amazon Web Services series of offerings. The latest is SimpleDB, which will be available in limited beta in a few weeks. And it is bound to have a major impact on [...]

By: Ivo

Ivo — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:16:20 +0000

@Brian: You need to be insane if you think that you can offer these “plumbing” services better by yourself. And with Amazonians, you deal with real people with emotions, commitment and pride of their services. Something you can’t say when dealing with the Google (Ad) Machine.

By: Large scale database now in the cloud |

Large scale database now in the cloud | — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:49:14 +0000

[...] December 14, 2007Large scale database now in the cloud Amazon is easily among a handful of companies like Google that get “it” in terms of the quickly developing a connected world we live in. The key to getting “it” is understanding that the way to grow into a giant in the new age is to enable the individual to be more creative and do very big things on a very small scale. By adding a schema free, massively scalable database to their growing suite of cloud computing services, Amazon has done just that. Amazon continues to expand its web services (cloud computing) offerings. They have just introduced Amazon SimpleDB, a new kind of data base that will help transform their current suite of cloud computing offerings - S3 storage and EC2 computing for example - into a live cloud environment. The Amazon SimpleDB is built on top of Erlang, and is optimized for large data sets, and is schemaless. (from Gigaom) [...]

By: December 14, 2007 | next media update

December 14, 2007 | next media update — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:47:20 +0000

[...] Amazon Launches SimpleDB Cloud Computing Service GIGAOM Amazon continues to expand its web services (cloud computing) offerings. They have just introduced Amazon SimpleDB, a new kind of data base that will help transform their current suite of cloud computing offerings - S3 storage and EC2 computing for example - into a live cloud environment. The Amazon SimpleDB is built on top of Erlang, and is optimized for large data sets, and is schemaless. Source> [...]

By: Marcelo Calbucci

Marcelo Calbucci — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:12:01 +0000

Here is a different perspective on SimpleDB:
http://marcelo.sampasite.com/brave-tech-world/Amazon-SimpleDB-What-nobody-is-t.htm

By: silpol

silpol — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:11:08 +0000

SimpleDB, I guess, is what were AWS fanatics crying for last few months after they realized they need more DB then S3 ;)

By: silpol

silpol — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:09:42 +0000

@Brian, the fact you can not imagine creative application for AWS without hard SLA does not mean it has no application at all - there are some companies who found and use it already. If you're in doubt, google for "smugmug aws pdf" and hit first link (should be PDF presentation).

p.s. looks like I had been able to avoid rude comments.

By: Aehso’s Output » Amazon SimpleDB

Aehso’s Output » Amazon SimpleDB — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:15:05 +0000

[...] (limited beta) sporting both RESTful and SOAP interfaces - see the Developer Guide and other good related posts (love the title of that last [...]

By: Amazon launches ad DB service

Amazon launches ad DB service — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:23:05 +0000

[...] (Via GigaOM.) [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:38:28 +0000

You’d need to be insane to trust your Web site’s large-scale dataset to Amazon. Until they come out with a for-fee, guaranteed pick-up-the-phone enterprise technical support offering, it’s a huge risk. The service can go down and the only way to deal with these guys is via a little 200-character max Web form, or post on their public forum and hope other users can help you.