As Oracle moves deeper into the cloud with the launch of Oracle Cloud Office and Open Office 3.3 last week, Amazon.com plans to let Oracle customers run a wide variety of apps on Amazon EC2 in the near future.
Working with Oracle, Amazon published a set of pre-configured AMIs (read: web servers, app servers, and databases) based on the Oracle VM Templates so Oracle clients can be up and running in a matter of minutes instead of weeks or even months.
“The application AMIs are all based on Oracle Linux and run on 64-bit high-memory instances atop the Oracle VM,” said Jeff Barr, senior manager of cloud-computing solutions at Amazon. “You can use them as-is or you can create derivative versions tuned to your particular needs. We’ll start out in one region and add more in the near future.”
Oracle’s EC2 Spread
Oracle started with Oracle Linux, Oracle Database 11gR2, Oracle E-Business Suite, and a number of Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies, including Oracle Weblogic Server and Oracle Business Process Management.
Now Amazon is offering a laundry list of applications that are available as AMIs on EC2. The suite of applications includes Peoplesoft apps, Oracle’s E-Business Suite apps, and JD Edwards Enterprise One apps. Barr said Oracle customers can take advantage of EC2 features such as Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Security Groups, Amazon CloudWatch and Reserved Instance pricing.
Amazon first discussed plans to allow Oracle customers to run apps on EC2 earlier this year. At that time, Barr noted that customers could use their existing Oracle licenses at no additional license cost or acquire new licenses from Oracle.
“We implemented Oracle VM support on Amazon EC2 with hard partitioning so Oracle’s standard partitioned processor licensing models apply,” Barr said. “All of these applications are certified and supported by Oracle. Customers with active Oracle support and…