Friday, September 26, 2008

Amazon Web Services + Oracle

Now AWS, has offered Oracle products (Oracle Database, Middleware and Enterprise Manager products), with this Oracle customers can now either have new license or use the existing one on the AWS, AWS has many images which are bundled with Oracle products and within minutes end users can have thier Oracle system up and running without bothering about installation, configuration etc, this is defnitely a boon to all those companies who spend tons of money on so called administrators for doing simple things.

Amazon Web services(AWS)
is the web services platform, where one can request and use IT
infrastructure services which is scalable, reliable, secure,
cost-effective and is a comprehensive solution.

Using this service one pays for only what one uses, with no obligation
to stay forever, all you need to do is sign-up for the service, as and
when your IT demand increases you can keep adding more machines and
start disbanding them once the load decreases. For startups it makes a
lot of economic sense.

AWS is a collection of infrastructure services (Below excerpt taken from http://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/)
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2™)
    – A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
    Configure an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) and load it into the Amazon EC2 service. Quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Learn more about Amazon EC2



  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3™)
    – A simple web services interface that can be used to store and
    retrieve large amounts of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.
    It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable,
    fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run
    its own global network of web sites. Learn more about Amazon S3™



  • Amazon SimpleDB™
    – A web service for running queries on structured data in real time.
    This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage
    Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2),
    collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data
    sets in the cloud. Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and provides the core
    functionality of a database—real-time lookup and simple querying of
    structured data—without the operational complexity. Learn more about Amazon SimpleDB™



  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS™) – A reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. By using Amazon SQS,
    developers can simply move data between distributed components of their
    applications that perform different tasks, without losing messages or
    requiring each component to be always available. Learn more about Amazon SQS
Read more on Oracle + AWS at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/cloud/faq.html
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/featured-partners/oracle/
http://blog.programmableweb.com/2008/09/25/oracle-moves-into-the-cloud-with-the-help-of-amazon/


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