Lonely Lion » rds http://weblog.lonelylion.com Chris McAvoy likes kites Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:52:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Amazon Gets Relational http://weblog.lonelylion.com/2009/10/27/amazon-gets-relational/ http://weblog.lonelylion.com/2009/10/27/amazon-gets-relational/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:49:09 +0000 Chris http://weblog.lonelylion.com/?p=825 Last week I gave an Amazon EC2 presentation at the Day of Cloud conference here in Chicago. My slides from the presentation cover some basics about EC2. It was a good day, lots of good speakers, and lots of attendees that were interested in getting their apps into the mysterious clooooouuudd.

The kicker is, I spent a fair amount of time explaining how to set up a relational database on EC2, just in time for Amazon to announce that they’re releasing very easy to use MySQL instances. Luckily, I have a half hour tomorrow at the Chicago Google Tools User Group to revisit the Amazon talk. I’ll revise the talk to focus on Amazon’s new offerings, specifically how to get a reasonable web app up on Amazon using RDS as a database back end.

I understand the irony of giving the talk at a Google tools group, but it can’t hurt to know how to move your applications off of AppEngine and on to other services. It’s all part of Data Liberation, right?

Day of Cloud: Amazon EC2
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