Amazon Wants Oracle Users to Have Apps Run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon wants Oracle (News - Alert) users to have apps soon run on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), according to a report from Newsfactor.com.

The report from Newsfactor.com said Amazon has created pre-configured AMIs (Amazon Machine Images), which are pre-built packages of software that “can be used to create or instantiate a virtual machine within the … EC2,” according to Beyond Oracle. They are based on Oracle VM templates.

Jeff Barr, senior manager of cloud-computing solutions at Amazon, told Newsfactor.com, that "the application AMIs are all based on Oracle Linux and run on 64-bit high-memory instances atop the Oracle VM.” Oracle VM is server virtualization software that supports non-Oracle and Oracle apps, according to the company website.

"You can use them as-is or you can create derivative versions tuned to your particular needs,” Barr added in his statement to Newsfactor.com. “We'll start out in one region and add more in the near future."

The apps include: Peoplesoft, Oracle's e-business suite, and JD Edwards Enterprise One, according to Newsfactor.com.

Oracle customers can use elastic load balancing, auto scaling, security groups, Amazon CloudWatch and reserved instance pricing – all on EC2.

Amazon discussed letting Oracle users run apps on EC2, earlier this year, according to TMCnet.

"We implemented Oracle VM support on Amazon EC2 with hard partitioning so Oracle's standard partitioned processor licensing models apply," Barr told Newsfactor.com. "All of these applications are certified and supported by Oracle. Customers with active Oracle support and Amazon premium support will be able to contact either Amazon or Oracle for support."

In other recent company news, Oracle reported that second-quarter fiscal 2011 GAAP and non-GAAP total revenues were up 47 percent to $8.6 billion, according to a company statement. Non-GAAP net income was up 34 percent to $2.6 billion.

“Strong revenue performance plus disciplined business management enabled a 33 percent increase in non-GAAP earnings per share to $0.51,” Oracle president, Safra Catz, added in the statement.