I wonder if there's potential for offering some kind of SQL engine that sits atop SimpleDB. In the same way that MySQL used to sit atop of BerkeleyDB.
Could even run the engine on EC2.
Could even run the engine on EC2.
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?
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...