InfoWorld – Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of “database as a service” is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB. Amazon itself provides EC2 instances running MySQL, and Amazon’s SimpleDB service offers capabilities similar — but not identical — to Amazon RDS.

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First look: Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL server in the cloud
(InfoWorld)