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Amazon RDS for Oracle

Amazon RDS for Oracle resources

Why Amazon RDS for Oracle?

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle is an easy to manage relational database optimized for total cost of ownership. The IDC Business Value of Amazon RDS whitepaper highlights the value that organizations have realized, including a 258% three-year return on investment. 

This page will enable you to dive into key resources for getting started with Amazon RDS for Oracle, including technical user guides, , step-by-step tutorials, migration guidance, videos, blogs, and more.

By default, customers are allowed to have up to a total of 40 Amazon RDS DB instances. Of those 40, up to 10 can be Oracle DB Instances under the "License Included" model. You can learn more about navigating Oracle licensing options in the documentation.

If you wish to run more instances, please complete this form and we will promptly respond to your request.

Getting started with Amazon RDS for Oracle

If you are eager to get started with Amazon RDS for Oracle, here are the essential user guides, tutorials, and technical documentation to quickly set up your instance.

Guide

Amazon RDS for Oracle user guide

This technical documentation and getting started guide covers all RDS for Oracle concepts and offers instructions for utilizing its various features, accessible via both the console and the command line interface.

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AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Prescriptive Guidance offers tested strategies, patterns, and guides to help accelerate cloud migration, modernization, and optimization projects. These resources are developed for you by AWS technology experts and the global community of AWS Partners.

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Creating and connecting to an Oracle DB instance

Learn how to create and connect to an Oracle database with Amazon RDS for Oracle.

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Best practices for working with Oracle

This guidance outlines best practices for when working with RDS for Oracle, including around high availability, backup storage, management, and more.

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workshop

Amazon RDS for Oracle workshop

This lab offers hands-on content, clear instructions, tutorials, and scripts to help you effectively grasp RDS for Oracle best practices and features.

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Monitoring and metrics in RDS for Oracle

This resource provides instructions on monitoring RDS for Oracle, covering instance status, performance metrics, and using tools like the console, Amazon CloudWatch, and Performance Insights.

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Administering your RDS for Oracle DB instance

In this documentation, learn about the common management tasks that you can perform on your RDS for Oracle database instances.

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Importing data into Oracle on Amazon RDS

This guide outlines how to import data into RDS for Oracle using tools like SQL Developer, Data Pump, or AWS DMS, depending on data size and complexity.

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Migration resources

Explore the resources below to accelerate your migration journey to Amazon RDS for Oracle from your on-premises or self-managed databases, with multiple licensing and deployment options to provide you the flexibility you need to get started.

Guide

AWS DMS documentation

These documentation guides offer an introduction to AWS DMS concepts, explaining data migration and continuous change replication from diverse data stores within the AWS Cloud.

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Whitepapers

Migrating Oracle Database Workloads to AWS

This eBook guides organizations through Oracle-to-AWS migration strategies, tools, services, and optimization considerations.

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Guide

Migrate an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for Oracle

This pattern shows how to migrate on-premises Oracle databases to RDS for Oracle using AWS DMS or native Oracle tools.

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Guide

Migrate an Oracle database from Amazon EC2 to Amazon RDS for Oracle

This pattern shows how to migrate Oracle databases from EC2 to RDS for Oracle using AWS DMS.

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Guide

Migrating from Oracle Database to RDS for Oracle with AWS SCT

This guide covers the most important considerations for migrating Oracle schemas and code to RDS for Oracle. It covers considerations such as converting directory objects, tablespaces, roles, and Oracle jobs.

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Guide

Importing data into Oracle on Amazon RDS

In this guide, learn about importing data into RDS for Oracle using tools like Oracle SQL Developer, Data Pump, and AWS DMS.

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Guide

Best practices for migrating to Amazon RDS for Oracle

Review these best practices on exporting, transferring, and importing data as well as other best practices before beginning a migration to RDS for Oracle.

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Whitepaper

Migrating Oracle Exadata Workloads to AWS

This whitepaper explores migration strategies for Oracle Exadata workloads to AWS, pre-migration considerations, available migration tools, common questions, and steps to get started.

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Guide

Migrate an on-premises Oracle to RDS for Oracle using Oracle Data Pump

This migration pattern covers how to migrate an on-premises Oracle Database to RDS for Oracle with Oracle Data Pump and Amazon S3 for data transfer.

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Sign in to the Amazon RDS console

Ready to get started with Amazon RDS for Oracle? Sign in or create your own AWS account, go to the Amazon RDS Console, and create an RDS for Oracle database in just a few clicks.

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Blog posts

Discover the newest Amazon RDS for Oracle AWS Databases blog posts below.

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What's new

Learn about the newest Amazon RDS for Oracle releases via What's new posts

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Videos

Listen to Amazon RDS for Oracle experts discuss the latest enhancements and innovations through recent re:Invent breakout sessions, AWS Data Dive videos, and more.