Just my 2 cents, but I can't help but think that getting "native connections" to AWS working is very strategic for the openbd project. Things like a well supported EC2 AMI, getting CFQUERY working with simpleDB etc are huge steps forward in terms of the "time to market" of any web app project, and a big advantage over other cfml engines, or whatever engine.
Just from my own recent experience, being able to use something like AWS's SQS (simple queue service) as part of a system greatly reduces complexity and completely changes how I can think about available CPU cycles even for smaller projects. A lot of what we need is already available thanks to the Amazon EC2/S3/SQS/SimpleDB Console project (http://awsconsole.riaforge.org/) but I wonder what other things could be done (like the enhancements to the CFQUERY tag) to further this relationship. Maybe keeping proprietary stuff like that in CFCs is generally better, but the combination play of CFML as a RAD language and AWS as RAD hardware, is at least for me proving to be very useful. I don't work for Amazon! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official blog @ http://blog.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
