In the next installment in its series of cloud computing infrastructure offerings, Amazon announced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a cloud version of the popular MySQL database. Following the popular “pay-per-drink” model of EC2 and S3 for selling compute, storage and database access, Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL database that you can spin up and pay for by the hour.
It’s a full MySQL database and gives you the benefit of Amazon taking care of your infrastructure.
Pricing starts at $0.11 / hour for the smallest database instance (1.7 GB memory, 1 virtual CPU core). You pay for the MySQL database instance itself (e.g., the virtual server running MySQL) and for storage.
For the small instance running a 10 GB database, you would pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000 a year not including transfer in and out of the cloud.
Find out more at: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).
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