Oracle licensing on AWS

Oracle licenses portability and support on AWS is a bit different between Oracle on EC2 and Oracle on RDS.  However, with both models you can Bring Your Own Licenses (BYOL). With RDS, you have the option of BYOL (Bring Your Own License) or License Included.  With Oracle on EC2, you can only BYOL. All Oracle licenses are portable to AWS as indicated here: http://aws.amazon.com/oracle/.   More details on how your Oracle licenses work on AWS can be found here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf.  The Oracle FAQ has more details on working with Oracle on AWS: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/cloud/faq-098970.html#Oracle_AWS. 

Gettings started with Oracle DB on AWS

Here are some links to get you started with Oracle database on AWS (EC2 and RDS):

• Oracle on AWS FAQ - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/cloud/faq-098970.html
• Landing page on AWS - http://aws.amazon.com/oracle/
• Oracle Amazon Machine Imagines - https://aws.amazon.com/amis?ami_provider_id=4&selection=ami_provider_id.  You can find the latest OEL AMIs, for OEL 5.9 and 6.4, at the bottom of this web page: http://aws.amazon.com/oracle/        
• Marketplace AMIs - Can be found here:  https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results/ref=srh_navgno_search_box?page=1&searchTerms=oracle+database+12c
• AWS EC2 Instances (you manage the database) - http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
• AWS EC2 Pricing - http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/ec2/
• AWS Pricing calculator - http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
• AWS RDS (managed database) - http://aws.amazon.com/rds/oracle/
• 10g Database - This can only be run on EC2 as RDS does not support 10g.
• Licensing - http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf
• AWS RDS limitations - http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concepts.DBEngine.Oracle.html
• Download and use the Oracle Database on AWS reference implementation - Oracle Database 11g on Amazon EC2 Implementation Guide
• Review the presentations here - http://www.slideshare.net/tomlaszewski