AWS to Offer Oracle Database through Amazon RDS

Amazon Web Services LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com (News - Alert), Inc. that provides companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud, has announced in a press release that it has been planning to offer Oracle (News - Alert) Database 11g through the Amazon Relational Database Service or ‘Amazon RDS’ very soon. The company will leverage Amazon RDS, its web service that helps enterprises in building, operating, and scaling a relational database in the cloud, to offer the Oracle offering to its customers at flexible pricing options.

The customers with existing Oracle licenses won’t need to pay any additional software licensing or support charges in order to run Oracle Databases on Amazon RDS, while the ones without existing Oracle licenses will be able to benefit from an on-demand hourly licensing option that doesn’t require them to pay any up-front fees.

Amazon RDS enables the enterprises to provision a relational database and the associated infrastructure hardware and software in a very short span of time, and helps them effectively manage regular maintenance tasks such as updating database software. Achieving continuous database backups for point-in-time recovery, the solution exposes vital metrics through a web dashboard, and allows the customers to scale and compute the storage capacity associated quickly right through its intuitive management console.

The solution had already been offering support to MySQL, and now with its added compliance with the Oracle Database engine, Amazon RDS will be able to streamline database administration for multiple editions of Oracle Database 11g Release 2. It will allow developers to focus upon their applications instead of getting busy with maintenance and evolution of their database infrastructure.

“Customers were really excited when we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL because it allowed them to run familiar MySQL databases while offloading operational responsibilities and capital costs associated with physical servers and datacenters, commented Raju Gulabani, Vice President of Database Services, at Amazon Web Services (News - Alert). “Enterprises have asked when we’d offer the same functionality for Oracle Databases. We’re pleased to share that we’re not only releasing it soon, but also that we’re ready to have conversations with interested customers so they can plan for future deployments.”

“Amazon continues to be a pioneer in cloud computing, and we’ve worked closely together to make sure that the power of the Oracle portfolio is available to customers who want to run them in the AWS cloud,” said Mark Townsend, Vice President of Oracle Database Server Technologies. “With more and more Oracle Database users interested in running on AWS, we are working with AWS to make sure the ease of fulfillment and platform agility of Amazon RDS is available for the Oracle Database.”

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