Amazon Web Services and Oracle Announce Certification of Oracle Applications on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud – FAQ

Q: Which Oracle Applications are currently available as templates in EC2?

Customers can deploy instances based on AMIs with the following products on 64 bit instance types:

• Oracle Linux 5.5×86 64bit
• Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3
• Oracle PeopleSoft PS 9.1 PeopleTools
• Oracle PeopleSoft PS 9.1 Database
• Oracle PeopleSoft ELM 9.1 PeopleTools
• Oracle PeopleSoft ELM 9.1 Database
• Oracle PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 PeopleTools
• Oracle PeopleSoft CRM 9.1 Database
• JD Edwards Enterprise One – ORCLVMDB
• JD Edwards Enterprise One – ORCLVMHTML
• JD Edwards Enterprise One – ORCLVMENT
• Oracle PeopleSoft FSCM 9.1 PeopleTools
• Oracle PeopleSoft FSCM 9.1 Database
• Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 App Tier
• Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.1.3-DB

In addition, customers can deploy instances based on AMIs with the following products on 32 bit instance types:

• Grid Control managed Oracle Database 11.1.0.7 for x86 with Oracle Linux 5.3
• Grid Control managed Oracle Database 10.2.0.4 for x86 with Oracle Linux 5.3
• Oracle Linux 5 Update 6 template - PV x86
• Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 Update 9 template - PV Small x86
• Siebel Mid-Tier VM Template for Siebel Industry Application version 8.1.1 for x86
• Oracle AS 10gR3 Webcenter
• Oracle Fusion Middleware 10.1.3.3 Service Oriented Architecture on WebLogic Server 9.2 Template
• Oracle Fusion Middleware 10.1.3.4 Service Oriented Architecture on Oracle Containers for JEE 10.1.3.4
• Oracle WebLogic Server 10gR3 VM Template - x86
• Oracle Identity Management (IDM) 10.1.4.2.0 template - x86
• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 10.1.3.4.0 template - x86
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.2.0.5 Template for Oracle VM x86
• Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Application Tier Install X86
• Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Production Database Tier Install X86
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11.1 Template for Oracle VM x86

Q: How can customers find Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) containing the Oracle templates on EC2?

The Oracle AMIs can be located using the “Oracle Category” item in the AMI catalog menu.

Q: Which regions are supported?

The Oracle AMIs are available for use in US-East (Virginia), US-West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), South America (Sao Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo).

Q: Which instance types are supported?

At this time, instance types in the Standard, High CPU and High-Memory family of instance types are supported. This includes Standard Small, Standard Large, Standard Extra Large, High-Memory Extra Large, High-Memory Double Extra Large, and High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large. AWS will notify customers when additional instance types are supported.

Q: When will additional Oracle Applications be available on EC2?

Oracle and Amazon Web Services plan to produce additional platform and application templates that customers can run as instances on Amazon EC2. We expect future releases to include Microsoft Windows Server 2008 images that customers can use as a platform for PeopleSoft, Siebel, and JD Edwards installations. AWS will notify customers when additional templates become available.

Q: Can customers import Oracle Virtual Machine templates into AmazonEC2?

Oracle will distribute templates of Oracle Applications that have been produced by Oracle and approved by AWS. Customers will be able to customize these environments and save them as derivative images which also run on the Oracle Virtual Machine.

Q: Is Oracle RAC supported on OVM on EC2?

Not at this time as Amazon EC2 does not support shared Elastic Block Store volumes.

Q: Can customers use OVM-Live Migration instances running on EC2?

No. Live Migration (which ships with Oracle VM Server) will not be offered by Amazon Web Services. All the AMI control will be done using Amazon’s front end tools.

Q: Can customers use Oracle VM Manager to run administration tasks on OVM instances running on EC2?

No. All the AMI control will be done using Amazon’s front end tools.

Q: How do customers manage Oracle Virtual machines on EC2?

OVM AMI administration and maintenance will be done using Amazon’s front end tools.

Q: Will customers be able to manage OVM instances on EC2 using the Oracle VM Server Management console?

No. Only EC2 management console tools will be supported. Customers can manage their OVM instances the same way they manage their existing instances on AWS.

Q: How will Oracle Applications on Amazon EC2 be supported?

Customers who run Oracle Applications on EC2 with active Oracle Support and Amazon Premium Support accounts will be able to contact either Amazon or Oracle for support. Amazon Web Services and Oracle have multi-vendor support process to for cases which require assistance from both organizations. Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support is available for Oracle Linux on EC2 as well.

Q: How will Oracle Applications hosted on Amazon EC2 be priced?

Normal AWS charges will apply to instances hosting Oracle Applications. Moreover, Oracle’s standard partitioned processor licensing models will apply since Oracle software will run on Oracle VM with hard partitioning. Specific questions about Oracle software pricing should be directed to Oracle.