4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon SimpleDB first-hand: 1 endorse it, 0 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“We use it to power the Simple Database for QuickFuse ... there is a latency cost for every request, maybe around 200ms. So, we try to pack as much into each request”
mixed · production · pak · 2010-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For us it was a good choice because we were on tight schedule... In the longer term however, we'll migrate back to an in-house solution.”
mixed · production · szilveszter · 2010-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Cheap, available to any EC2 instance, and we never have to worry about DB maintenance or failures.”
endorse · production · crcastle · 2010-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use SDB in our service; so if SDB blows up, not only would things break, we couldn't easily get at our logs”
neutral · production · ConstantineXVI · 2011-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?