EMR : Pig, Hive

EMR has support for Pig and Hive:

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/08/02/amazon-elastic-mapreduce-now-supports-hive-0.11.0-and-pig-0.11.1/

DynamoDB cross region support

DynamoDB does currently not support cross-region replication. Therefore, were you to store your data in two (or more) regions, you would have to roll out your own implementation to replicate.

SNS cross region support

SNS is available in all AWS regions.  It is possible to publish SNS topics and one region and have subscribers in another region.

Oracle specific protocol support on AWS ELB

Some Oracle customers are running Oracle specific protocols and when they move to AWS they would like to know if AWS services (such as ELB) support these products.  AWS ELB supports the HTTP, TCP, HTTPS and SSL protocols.  Oracle UCM IDC protocol is not supported with AWS ELB.  In looking at common on premise software and hardware load balancers (F5, Riverbed etc), I do not see any that support Intradoc (IDC).  The more important question to ask is: "What load balancer do you use on premise to load balance IDC traffic?"  If it is a software load balancer, you could run this on an EC2 instances.>

Another protocol that some Oracle customers run is Sockets Direct Protocol (SDP). SDP is an industry-standard wire protocol between InfiniBand network peers. When used over an InfiniBand network, SDP reduces TCP/IP overhead by eliminating intermediate replication of data and transferring most of the messaging burden away from the CPU and onto the network hardware.  This protocol is not supported on AWS. 

Getting Started with WebLogic on AWS

Here are the links to get you started with Oracle WebLogic on AWS/EC2:

1. Oracle on AWS FAQ - 

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/cloud/faq-098970.html

2. Landing page on AWS - 

http://aws.amazon.com/oracle/

3. Oracle Amazon Machine Imagines - 

There are AMIs on the AWS web site but you are best to create your own AMI with the OS of your choice and install WebLogic on this base instance.https://aws.amazon.com/amis?ami_provider_id=4&selection=ami_provider_id . The AMIs Oracle has posted here are really just to get started.  They are really not even good for demo or POC usage. 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/  

4. EC2 Instances available - 

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/

5. EC2

Pricing - http://aws.amazon.com/pricing/ec2/

6. Pricing calculator - 

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

1. Oracle licensing : You bring your own license.  You can not buy a license from AWS. This can be an     Oracle ULA, ELA, or perpetual licenses. The only support AWS has for AWS compute with Oracle license included is for AWS RDS. For all other, you have to BYOL.  A partner can use OPN licenses for test and development.  OTN licenses are only for trials of 30 days or less.
Oracle on AWS licensing document is here: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf

2. The bulk of the AWS cost is composed of EC2 compute, storage (EBS and S3) and network (data transfer out). The pricing calculator above can give you an estimate of AWS cost.

3. Oracle support on AWS : 

 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/cloud/faq-098970.html#support