Amazon has EC2, S3, their key/value database, their mysql service and about a jillion other great services and tools, but what I think would be awesome and not hard for them to do is to just have a replication/snapshotting service for mysql - a backup.

In mysql, it’s very easy to just point a slave at a master mysql server. Just give it an IP, name, password and a pointer into the transaction log. How nice would it be to just point your mysql server at an Amazon IP and know that it’s now being replicated, backed up and snapshotted at regular intervals? Instant Mysql backups! A one-liner on your side configuration-wise and your whole database is being backed up? How awesome is that!?!?!? It would be pretty simple for Amazon to put together, just another EC2 instance and they could charge the normal rates and get some more business. Making this easy would inspire many people to use it and could bring in some instant revenue to ‘the Zon’ in my opinion.

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