I’ve tried to use Amazon Relational Database Service. Easy to scale-up appeals to me.
Official Getting Started Guide is very good. I almost followed this document.
Works on Mac OSX 10.5.8.
% rds-create-db-instance --db-instance-identifier myinstance --allocated-storage 5 --db-instance-class db.m1.small --engine MySQL5.1 --master-username mymasteruser --master-user-password **** --db-name MyDatabase --headers
It takes several minutes.
% rds-describe-db-instances --headers
Unable to find a $JAVA_HOME [...]
Amazon RDS quick start