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Re:Amazon SimpleDB Goes Beta by rontr on Friday December 14, 2007 @12:17PM (#89588)
"This is cute, but doesn't really do anything which isn't already possible with EC2 and S3."

EC2 doesn't give you durability, and S3 doesn't give you speed. SimpleDB gives you both.

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Re:Amazon SimpleDB Goes Beta by wmf on Friday December 14, 2007 @03:03PM (#89644)
It sounds like SimpleDB runs on EC2, meaning it can't do anything that you couldn't build yourself on EC2. If you replicate data across enough EC2 nodes you can get durability (at the cost of complexity and high MTTR).
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