Developer Nirvana - Amazon SimpleDB

Finally something worth talking about! I love it when Amazon sends me their webservice emails because they always seem to be cooking up something clever that’s going to make my job easier. First it was S3, then EC2, and now SimpleDB. In their own words:

Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and provides the core functionality of a database - real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data - without the operational complexity. Amazon SimpleDB requires no schema, automatically indexes your data and provides a simple API for storage and access. This eliminates the administrative burden of data modeling, index maintenance, and performance tuning. Developers gain access to this functionality within Amazon’s proven computing environment, are able to scale instantly, and pay only for what they use.

Ahhhh. Doesn’t that sound nice? No software to maintain. No db server to maintain. No data modeling. No need to monitor storage space or server load. If this sounds good to you, check out the full page.

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December 14th 11:52 AM
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