Server as a Service

In addition to Sun Microsystem’s MySQL, Oracle is now available through Amazon’s Web Services. One has to wonder why you would ever buy a physical database server again. This takes SaaS to a whole new level: Instead of Software as a Service, this is Server as a Service. One of the listed benefits:

Quickly and easily add computing capacity as your requirements change. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as you need.

I know it’s geeky, and I’ve probably lost most of my readers already (thanks for getting this far!), but doesn’t that sound really really nice?

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