ReInvent 2013 : Using Amazon RDS to Power Enterprise Applications

Here the replay from reInvent.  A lot of details about Oracle RDS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348Nu4qyNDo

Oracle Enterprise Applications on AWS web cast

Oracle Enterprise Applications on AWS Join us for a Webinar on May 3 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/973888266 Come join us and get a good introduction to running Oracle databases & applications on Amazon Web Services platform.  Hear the answers to commonly asked questions like: Which Oracle products are available and possible to run on AWS?  What does support, pricing and licensing models look like? How to size Oracle on AWS? Title: Oracle Enterprise Applications on AWS Date: Friday, May 3, 2013 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server Mac®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.6 or newer Mobile attendees Required: iPhone®, iPad®, Android™ phone or Android tablet

AWS RDS cross region replication

RDS offers a simple way to replicate across AZs (Multi-AZ feature) for fault tolerance and high availability.  RDS cross region synchronization / replication provides additional fault tolerance.  This is an interesting situation because RDS is a 'black box'/PaaS/DaaS environment. Therefore, no access to the OS level is provided. This means this replication solutions like MySQL Replication or Oracle Goldengate can not be used.  Until RDS offers snapshots like the new EBS region snapshotting, you will have to use tools like BitTorrent or CloudBeam to move database dump files across regions.You could use DB links with materialized views as this article mentions: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/4173109646282306. DB Links are slow but if you don't have a low RTO and RPO you could use this...Or come up with your own creative solution.