Ask HN: mySQL as a Service

Is running your mySQL at AWS good enough?<p>have a look at here: <a href="http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1663" rel="nofollow">http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?ex...</a><p>you get all what you have asked for and even more ;-)

Wasn't there a YC startup which offered this?<p>EDIT: Yes - <a href="http://fathomdb.com/about/home" rel="nofollow">http://fathomdb.com/about/home</a>

It does exist - we at FathomDB offer a SQL based database as a service, and have a bunch of customers happily (if quietly) using us!

Speed? Doing db calls over the net doesn't seem too efficient.

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Latency would be to high for most usage (retrieve a couple of rows a t a time). I would use it as the service is ALL my queries where taking 1 second and more on my own system, and about the same time (or better: less time) from the cloud.