Oracle Enterprise Manager Solutions on AWS

Listen to this webinar, presented by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Apps Associates, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner, to hear how you can leverage the AWS platform to run a centralized OEM 12c environment to free up your administrative resources:

http://youtu.be/XSBND55sghc

EMaaS : Oracle OEM 12c as a Service webinar

Learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control enables you to monitor and manage the complete enterprise application stack, web tier to storage, for both dedicated and cloud-based infrastructure environments.

Join Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Apps Associates, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner to hear how you can leverage the AWS platform to run a centralized OEM 12c environment to free up your administrative resources.

Register here:

https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=641039&sessionid=1&key=C3BFA66F187A7E2A5DD0C6865B83A3E6&partnerref=AWSemail_v1&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRow5%2FmYJoDpwmWGd5mht7VzDtPj1OY6hBkuIryWflL6iuNDGZQ7fbSfDAMKHJ52xQ5LH%2FKDdYNF6Q%3D%3D&sourcepage=register

Replay can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSBND55sghc

DBA and developer access to Oracle hosted on AWS

Here are three common methods used to limit access to the AWS environment for DBAs and developers:

1. Bastion host : A bastion can be used as a jump box' / proxy server. Developers and DBAs would be given access using SSH and than use other credentials to log into the web, application, and database servers. More on bastion host security can be found here: http://cloudconclave.blogspot.com/2013/05/aws-bastion-host-as-single-point-of.html.  There is the cost of the EC2 instance that is the bastion host and data transfer out costs.
2. VPN with customer gateway and virtual private gateway.  In the case, you create a VPN tunnel.  The costs here are the VPN hardware on your side (customer gateway), cost of virtual private gateway (VPG), and costs of VPN connections and data transfer out of AWS. More on VPN costs here (this assumes this option): http://cloudconclave.blogspot.com/2013/05/vpn-costs-for-connections-and-data.html
3. OpenVPN : You do not incur the cost of hardware on your side and the VPG on the AWS side.  You still have the cost of the data transfer out.  You would also incur the cost of the EC2 instances that is running an open source VPN software stack (in this case OpenVPN).

I am sure there are other methods as well.

Could also use these constructs to provide secure integration from your on premise or third party applications (SFTP for flat file integration, VPN for web services).

Oracle ADDM monitoring on AWS

OEM 12c is the away to go for monitoring ADDM metric (DB diagnostic for ADDM).  You can test drive OEM 12c running on AWS EC2 here:

http://cloudconclave.blogspot.com/2013/04/oracle-enterprise-manager-cloud-control.html

You can also monitor EC2, RDS and EBS volumes when running Oracle on AWS using the OEM 12c plug-in for AWS:

http://cloudconclave.blogspot.com/2012/12/oracle-enterprise-manager-aws-plug-in.html

AWS console interface

Making an already easy UI for AWS (aws.amazon.com) even easier:
http://www.skeddly.com

CloudFormation, OpsWorks and Elastic Beanstalk

Now that AWS has announced OpsWorks and also has CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk there are questions on which application and infrastructure management tools is best for you.  Through in thinks like Chef and Puppet and things get really interesting. More can be found here:

https://aws.amazon.com/application-management/

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c - Monitoring Essentials test drive lab

App Associates and AWS just announced a new test drive lab.  This test drive lab demonstrates how OEM 12c can be used to monitor and manage on premise Oracle environments in the cloud.

http://awslabs.appsassociates.com/oemdb-registration.php

Oracle on AWS costs of Oracle on AWS and licensing management

Here are two common questions in regards to Oracle pricing and licensing on AWS:

1. How can they determine the pricing for an instance launched from an Oracle AMI e.g. https://aws.amazon.com/amis/oracle-database-11g-release-2-11-2-0-1-enterprise-edition-64-bit?

The bottom line: The pricing are the standard EC2, data out traffic, and storage + cost of Oracle licenses (or no cost of Oracle licenses if they have their own)

2. How do they manage BYOL or using unused licenses in practical terms? (afaik they have to BYOL for Oracle on EC2)

The bottom line : It is up to the customer to make sure they are not violating Oracle licensing policies.