Comments on: PLM Prompt: Amazon RDS and future PLM apps on cloud?

By: olegshilovitsky

olegshilovitsky — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:49:09 +0000

Yann, Thank you for your comment! Indeed, I agree, RDS is much simpler way to go with database apps on cloud compared to pure EC2. With regards to your second note, you are not expected to be compliant to GNU/Linux/OSS if you host machine which is Windows.
Best, Oleg

By: yml

yml — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:43:33 +0000

Oups again submit the form before I really wanted to do it.

The last comment is that aws (amazon web services http://aws.amazon.com/) is a perfect illustration of what can be done with the GNU/Linux/OSS stack. It is important to note that in order to take advantage fully of this the infrastructure you used to develop your application should be compliant with this stack of software.

Regards,
–yml

By: yml

yml — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:38:05 +0000

This is a very interesting announcement for several reason:

* RDS will enable you to scale your DB server very easily from small to huge database server very easily this can help many company to scale vertically their application.

* The database server chosen is MySQL. This compatibility allows you to develop your application locally and take the compatibility has granted.

* RDS comes with built in backup restore mechanism. I cannot count the number of time I have seen this process going wrong when you really need it.

* It significantly lower the administration work you had to do when hosting your own DB server on an EC2 instances.

All this comes at with a cost that I find a bit hight.