On: Infinitely Scalable Framework with Amazon Web Services?

[busy_beaver]

There's a guy working on a MySQL storage engine that uses S3:

http://fallenpegasus.livejournal.com/tag/s3

It's still at a very early stage in terms of implemented features, but he seems to be moving forward rapidly.

I have no idea what kind of performance he's getting -- I'm planning to check out the MySQL source sometime next week and do a test build. Extremely cool idea. :-)