chrise (4/13/2009)
If you take the example quoted by Amazon, a medium sized website db of 100GB and averaging 100 I/Os a second over the course of the month, it would cost $26 a month to host it in the cloud. There are SQL Server AMIs already available - I haven't had a chance to use them yet - been working mostly with Oracle AMIs so far.I think it's a great concept. It's going back to the old timesharing days when you'd log on to an IBM mainframe and pay for what you used.
I don't know about Oracle but most hosting companies currently charge about that for SQL Server now and much less for MySQL but you still need to Backup, maintain performance and other tasks so how will the developer take care of all that without a DBA? In most web application that data is the company asset lets hope the Cloud is providing more than storage because what exists now is more than storage.
Kind regards,
Gift Peddie