Amazon’s Newest Webservice – SimpleDB
Posted by David Tucker in Amazon WebservicesDec 14th, 2007 | one responseAmazon has announced their newest webservice, SimpleDB. This service could fill in the gap with EC2 and S3 to offer a completely redundant and scalable solution for robust Internet applications. Amazon has only released a few details, but the public beta will be opening within the next few weeks.
Traditionally, this type of functionality has been accomplished with a clustered relational database that requires a sizable upfront investment, brings more complexity than is typically needed, and often requires a DBA to maintain and administer. In contrast, 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.
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David Tucker is a Rich Internet Application developer, author, and trainer. David currently serves as a Software Engineer at Universal Mind. In addition, David also blogs regularly at InsideRIA where he produces the Weekly RIA RoundUp podcast. David also recently completed the AIR 1.5 Cookbook (with a great group of co-authors) and the Lynda.com series, AIR for Flash Developers.
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