I'm a big fan (and user) of cloud computing because of the potential efficiencies it brings to the enterprise IT operating model. So this announcement, via www.techcrunch.com, from Amazon is interesting.
Amazon has launched a hosted relational database service, Amazon RDS, as part of the suite of services available at AWS. The new service is a hosted MySQL database instance with the full capabilities and access rights as a normal self-hosted DB.
As a hosted solution, instances are easily created and available almost immediately. Pricing stars at $0.11c per hour for the smallest scale specification, and is available now on the AWS site.
So my question is: does the adoption of this cloud service remove the need for a database administrator? Because if it does,
it's a radical change to the IT operating model. If it doesn't, then it's more complicated to find value because I still need to have a DB admin.
What do you think?
I don't think it is the end of them. DB's have always blurred the lines between applications and infrastructure. Whilst I don't think it is the end of the DBA I do think that we only need the good ones now.
Posted by: twitter.com/Warrenjburns | Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 05:11 PM