Re: postgreSQL & amazon ec2 cloud

[Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora@xxxxxxxxx>]

I found today that postgres EnterpriseDB supports Amazon EC2. On a shoestring budget EnterpriseDB is just as much an option as Oracle ;-(

So, question is what makes EnterpriseDB more suitable for the cloud than plain vanilla postgreSQL?

Anyone?

With best regards.
Sanjay.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Harald Armin Massa[legacy] <haraldarminmassa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John,

>> Is it possible to host postgreSQL on Amazon's cloud? What are the issues
>> involved?
>
> in theory, sure.   anything is possible.
>
> in practice, as I understand it from my relatively superficial reading, fast
> storage is fairly expensive and limited in the EC2 compute cloud, and also
> not real persistent

That also was my understanding. But just today a message from AWS
dropped in my inbox:

"....Starting today, you can now launch Amazon EC2 running Windows or
SQL Server instances in the the EU Region,  ...."

So there must be some way to run a relational database with EC2, as
the storage requirements of SQL Server and PostgreSQL are not THAT
different.

Harald











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