Oracle Database AMIs

An easy way to Bring Your Own License (BYOL) to AWS and start running the Oracle Database is to utilize the AWS Marketplace AMIs.  There are six AMIs for Oracle 12c and 11g.  Standard Edition One, Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition versions are available for both 12c and 11g. All these Marketplace AMIs, use PIOPS with a provisioning of 500 IOPS.  The OS system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5. The AWS Marketplace AMIs can be found here:

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results/ref=sp_navgno_search_box?page=1&searchTerms=oraclempbyol

Migrating from Oracle EE to SE on AWS RDS

There isn’t an easy way to do an in-place conversion from Oracle EE database to SE. This is true whether the database is on RDS, on premise, or running on EC2. This is because Oracle EE supports many different options that are not available in Oracle SE. Therefore, exporting and importing would be the only way to do it.