Amazon's Pg-in-the-cloud offering

Hey folks!

Got this from one of Amazon's marketing folks. This was certainly big news
last week, and I plan to attend this.

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Hi, Gabrielle! I'm writing to you in your capacity as an organizer of the
Portland PostgreSQL User Group. I work for Amazon Web Services, which, as
you may know, just added PostgreSQL 9.3.1 to the selection of databases
available through Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

We're having a webinar to give people in the community an opportunity to
hear about what we're doing with PostgreSQL and to ask questions of the
product managers. I would like to humbly ask you to consider forwarding an
invitation to the webinar to your members, or, even if you'd prefer not to,
join in yourself. It takes place on December 5 at 11am Pacific time. The
invite is below; feel free to contact me with questions.

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> Title: Introducing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

> Date: December 5, 2013

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> Time: 11 a.m. Pacific/noon Mountain/1 p.m. Central/2 p.m. Eastern

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> Registration link:

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http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=711807&s=1&k=464F5E743373FCE8FBD15D289203C29B&partnerref=EM3

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> Abstract:

>

> Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational

> database deployments in the cloud. We are excited to introduce

> PostgreSQL to the family of supported database engines. Now, you can

> create scalable PostgreSQL deployments in minutes, freeing you up to

> focus on application development instead of time-consuming database

> administration tasks including backups, software patching,

> monitoring, scaling and replication. In this webinar, we will provide

> an overview of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, discuss popular use cases,

> and share best practices that will help you fully leverage PostgreSQL

> in the cloud.

>

Thanks very much.