Oracle Spatial on Amazon EC2

This presentation has details on an Oracle Spatial implementation on AWS. http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/spatial/pdf/osuc2012_presentations/osuc12_gisasservice_walshbaynham.pdf

The summary is:

• Technical approach:

  ·   Oracle Database with Spatial

  ·   Deploy on Amazon EC2

  ·   J2EE Web Application Server

  ·   Multi-tenant Multi-user 100% Web software for Mapping and analyzing business data 
– eSpatial OnDemand GIS

  
  

  Amazon Overview

  ·      Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2)


  ·      Variety of Instance Types (CPU cores, memory...)

  ·      Pre-configured Amazon Machine Instances (AMI’s)

  ·      Availability Zones

  ·      Elastic Block Storage – EBS
 Simple Storage Service (S3)
 Elastic IP addresses


  ·      Load Balancing & Auto Scaling, More...

  Amazon Deployment:

  ·   Dedicated Database Server(s) with separate Web Application Servers

  ·   AMI - Oracle 11g DB & Redhat Fedora

  ·   Database on an EBS volume

  ·   ARCHIVELOG as normal – archive to a separate EBS volume

  ·   RMAN Backup to separate EBS volume

  ·   Copy backups to Amazon S3

  ·   EE & RAC or SE-1 with Standby DB

  ·   Backup from Standby DB