Re: postgreSQL & amazon ec2 cloud

I don't know exactly, but here here is a paper from Elastra
http://elastra.com/about/2008/03/07/enterprisedb-to-deliver-oltp-database-using-amazon-cloud/


Oleg
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Sanjay Arora wrote:

> I found today that postgres EnterpriseDB supports Amazon EC2. On a
> shoestring budget EnterpriseDB is just as much an option as Oracle ;-(
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> So, question is what makes EnterpriseDB more suitable for the cloud than
> plain vanilla postgreSQL?
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> Anyone?
>
> With best regards.
> Sanjay.
>
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> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Harald Armin Massa[legacy] <
> haraldarminmassa@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> John,
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>>>> Is it possible to host postgreSQL on Amazon's cloud? What are the issues
>>>> involved?
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>>> in theory, sure.   anything is possible.
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>>> 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
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>> That also was my understanding. But just today a message from AWS
>> dropped in my inbox:
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>> "....Starting today, you can now launch Amazon EC2 running Windows or
>> SQL Server instances in the the EU Region,  ...."
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>> 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.
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>> Harald
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     Regards,
         Oleg
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