Ask HN: Bootstrapping data costs?

Our company is using Azure Table Storage - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing - $0.15/mo It's great if you can live with it not being relational.

SQL Azure is their 'SQL Server in the cloud' and is a bit more. But the sharding possibilities are great. You can programmatically turn on/off db instances on demand.

We'd need more info about what you plan to do with it, but Amazon should have what you're looking for (http://aws.amazon.com/). If it needs to be in a relational database, try Amazon RDS (http://aws.amazon.com/rds/), where you can pick from 5GB to 1TB of storage.

Notes:

The data is relational

I don't want to host my own server, because that just isn't my strong point.

A possible route would be hosting your own dedicated server.