...or a MySQL engine on top of S3? http://fallenpegasus.com/code/mysql-awss3/

sadiq · on March 10, 2008

I was thinking of an actual business idea.

Providing some kind of higher level abstraction in a pay-as-you-go utilisation, hosted on ec2 and maybe backed on to simpledb.

You'd really want to throw memcache in there as well. I wonder how easy porting that to memcache and simpledb would be?

jdavid · on March 10, 2008

the problem with simple ideas for aws, is that you need to either pay via data, bandwidth or instance hours.

i would love to pay for process hours on some software. i wish there was standard way for aws customers to exchange services based on process time.

in all likelihood amazon has done some of this work for simpleDB, but it would be great to build a piece of code on one linux box and then to sell that time to other users.

i could think of a number of situations where I would love to pay for process time instead of instance time. email, databases, caches, load balancing, etc...

jdavid · on March 10, 2008

this looked interesting too

http://thrudb.org/