September 22, 2008

Oracle announces an Amazon cloud offering

Per the Amazon Web Service Blog, Oracle announced that Oracle can be run in the Amazon cloud (i.e., on EC2, with EBS for persistent storage). Clustering is probably weak, however — e.g., there’s no RAC support, as per Oracle’s well-written FAQ. Perhaps not coincidentally, the FAQ seems to suggest that the primary use case at this time is for backup, and backup is generally a major point of emphasis on Oracle’s cloud computing page.

Of course, another use case could be development, but that depends in part on pricing. Of course, whether Oracle’s offering seems attractively priced compared with, for example, a similar one from EnterpriseDB and Elastra depends a lot on whether you’ve already negotiated an unlimited-use license for Oracle.

James Kobielus, who presumably was pre-briefed, has more to say.

Categories: Amazon and its cloud, Cloud computing, Oracle 
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  1. The essence of the Oracle Amazon cloud offering | DBMS2 -- DataBase Management System Services on September 22nd, 2008 10:55 pm

    […] The press release adds color to what I previously posted about Oracle’s new Amazon cloud offering. (Emphasis […]

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