MySQL as a web service from Amazon

Amazon is offering MySQL as web service in the cloud. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use.

Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period. You also benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your relational database instance via a single API call. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

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