Re:MongoHQ (YC S11) Raises $6 Million For Database As Servic...
by kevinwuhoo on Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:21PM
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Amazon Web Services itself has three distinct services [1] for database as a service: SDB (2007), RDS (2009), and DynamoDB (2012). If there wasn't demand or money in it, I'm sure they would have stopped at their first, simplest iteration.
[1]: http://aws.amazon.com/running_databases/