Re: postgreSQL & amazon ec2 cloud

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(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> 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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