Amazon SimpleDB is currently in beta and described by Amazon as such:
“Amazon SimpleDB is a web service providing the core database functions of data indexing and querying. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud, making web-scale computing easier and more cost-effective for developers.”
The developers at Mindscape created a Visual Studio 2008 Add-In that helps you administer your Amazon SimpleDB Domains. What is great about this tool is that your Amazon SimpleDB Datastore sits in the Visual Studio 2008 Server Explorer as any database and you can see the various Domains and Attributes for the domain just as if you were looking at a Database's Tables and Columns.
Even cooler is that you can view the items and attributes in each domain and add, edit, delete, and query them all within Visual Studio 2008. Inside my Presentations Domain you can see the next three presentations I will be giving to the Sarasota .NET Developers, SQL Saturday in Tampa, and South Florida Code Camp. Via SimpleDB Management Tools I can easily manage my domains and data all from within Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
Impressive. You can learn more about the Amazon SimpleDB Management Tools on the Mindscape Website.