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Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc, has announced plans to make Oracle Database 11g available via the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in the second quarter of 2011. With this businesses and developers will be able to run Oracle Databases with the pricing flexibility, ease of use, and scalability of Amazon RDS and the AWS Cloud.
Amazon RDS is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It reduces the amount of time required to provision a relational database, as well as the underlying infrastructure hardware and software, from days to just minutes. It also manages ongoing maintenance tasks such as updating database software, taking continuous database backups for point-in-time recovery, and exposing key operational metrics via a web dashboard. In addition, businesses can scale the compute and storage capacity associated with a database in minutes – with a few clicks of an intuitive management console.
Amazon RDS for Oracle will include flexible pricing options for customers. Those with existing Oracle licenses will be able to run Oracle Databases on Amazon RDS with no additional software licensing or support charges. Those without existing Oracle licenses can take advantage of on-demand hourly licensing with no upfront fees or long-term commitments. Customers will further have the option of ‘Reserved DB Instances’ option, allowing them to make a low, one-time payment for each DB Instance and in turn receive the option to run that DB Instance at a significant discount on the ongoing hourly usage charge.
“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. 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,” said Raju Gulabani, Vice President of Database Services at Amazon Web Services.
“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. 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,” said Mark Townsend, vice president, Oracle Database Server Technologies.
Technical support for Oracle Database will be available from Oracle for BYOL DB Instances, and from AWS with backline support from Oracle for On-Demand and Reserved DB Instances.
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