[ZODB-Dev] Amazon SimpleDB Adapter

[Shane Hathaway]

Benjamin Liles wrote:
> Currently at the Plone conference it seems that a large number of people
> are beginning to host their Plone sites on the Amazon EC2 service.  A
> simpleDB adapter might be a good way to provide persistent storage for
> an EC2 base Zope instance.  Has there been any interest in this?  If I
> was to write one, should I add it to RelStorage or create my own package
> along the lines of relstorage.adapters.simpledb?

This sounds interesting!  We should add an adapter to RelStorage.  We
might run into some trouble with MVCC, but I think we can solve that.
We should also use Amazon S3 directly for blob storage.

In general, Amazon's services seem a much better fit for ZODB apps than
what Google is offering.

Shane