Amazon and Oracle have collaborated to offer their customers options and convenience when deploying enterprise applications on the cloud. Customers can not only build enterprise-grade solutions hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) using database and middleware software by Oracle, but they can also launch entire enterprise software stacks from Oracle on EC2. In both cases, customers can benefit from the scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of deploying on Amazon’s cloud.

Use Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Enterprise Linux to build enterprise-grade solutions in the cloud, leveraging the virtually unlimited compute power and storage of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hosting Oracle-based solutions in AWS enables you to use proven database and middleware offering within a proven cloud computing platform, providing greater reliability and performance than hosting solutions on your own hardware. Together, Amazon and Oracle provide businesses with a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective business application platform.

Oracle customers can now license Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Enterprise Manager to run in the AWS cloud computing environment. Oracle customers can also use their existing software licenses on Amazon EC2 with no additional license fees. And for on-premise Oracle installations, AWS allows you to create a dependable and secure off-site backup location that integrates seamlessly with Oracle RMAN tools.

Oracle has delivered a set of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), to make it easy for customers to get started deploying Oracle solutions on Amazon EC2. Developers can take advantage of the provisioning and automated software deployment in these AMIs to rapidly build applications using Oracle’s popular development tools such as Oracle Application Express, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse and Oracle Workshop for WebLogic.

Deploying enterprise applications from Oracle on Amazon EC2

Amazon and Oracle have announced that a wide selection of Oracle enterprise software has been certified to run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Customers who power their business with Oracle software can fully leverage the scalability, reliability, and utility-based pricing model of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for production workloads with full support from Oracle and AWS.

A set of platform and application templates that customers can run as instances on Amazon EC are now available. These templates reduce implementation times from days to minutes and include Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Database 11gR2, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One, and Oracle PeopleSoft. Additional images will be released over time.

In addition to minimizing installation and hardware maintenance costs, these templates enable customers to easily take advantage of existing AWS features such as Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Auto-Scaling, Security Groups, and Amazon CloudWatch when deploying Oracle applications on Amazon Web Services.

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