Amazon gives marching orders to cloudy storage

Amazon.com continues to offer deeper penetration into its cloud. The company this week unfurled a storage service for hard-core users that will let you keep data and file systems in separate piles. The Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) builds on the existing Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) processing service and lower-level storage …

[James]

Presumably ..

.. the next host system in the series will be the NKR Elastic.

[Anonymous Coward]

They must be out of their beautiful minds

If they think people are going to use these areas to store databases with any type of sensitive data, which is actually most databases.

Though there are some generic databases, that could do well stored online, oh I see interesting times ahead.