Just saw a blog on Amazon Relational Database Service (Beta)

I saw http://aws.amazon.com/rds/?ref_=pe_12300_13473310 on reddit today.
Faqs http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/#14 here.

There's been talks of PostgreSQL in Amazon's EC & I know some of the
EnterpriseDB people were looking at it. So maybe the people here would be
interested in seeing how Amazon setup MySQL in the cloud.

A few things first:

1. I cannot find any documentation on IO metrics. The faqs specifically
mentioned increasing CPU when queries seems slow, which doesn't make sense
to me.
2. No out-of-the-box replication.
3. The automated backup is good enough, except for the "1
day retention period". Ugh.

I actually really hope this works out well for MySQL, because it means
Amazon will have the infrastructure to support PostgreSQL as well.