The announcement finally came out. Users can now run supported versions of Oracle Enterprise Linux, 11G Database, Fusion Middleware and Enterprise Manager on Amazon EC2 instances. You can create your own AMI or use any of the pre-packaged AMIs with the above-mentioned products. And you don’t have to purchase new licenses, you can transfer existing ones to run on Amazon’s infrastructure.
A separate but related announcement is the possibility to simply and securely backup your databases on Amazon S3 instead of (or in addition to) on tape. I hope BNY Mellon will take notice.
The Amazon AWS blog has a good overview of the news. Forrester covers it with a focus on data warehousing.
This comes in addition to the existing SaaS offering (“On Demand”) from Oracle and the SaaS platform (for others to provide SaaS on top of Oracle’s software). It is a major milestone for utility computing.
[UPDATED 2008/9/21: This is the home page for the Oracle Cloud Computing Center and this is the FAQ.]
[UPDATED 2008/9/23: More Cloud love, this time with Intel. I have no insight into that partnership.]
[UPDATED 2009/2/10: More on WebLogic Server on EC2, from Erik Bergenholtz.]
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