Enterprise in the Cloud

Monday, January 5, 2015

Amazon data warehouse migration to Amazon Redshift

Informative video on moving an Oracle RAC and Hadoop based web log data mining solution to Amazon Redshift:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4KPPvEb_QI

Migrating to AWS : Amazon.com

Nice session on how Amazon.com has migrated several different types of workloads to AWS:

1. Rehost - Amazon.com web site : Details on an existing workload migrated to AWS. 'Classic' web site migration of web application to AWS.

2. Rearchitecture - Database migration : Migrating application data to AWS from a traditional data store to AWS is way to reduce costs. This use cases uses an Information Lifecycle approach to moving data off of a live production databases to S3.

3. Replace - Application replacement : Deprecation of an order system, and implementing the new order system on AWS.

4. Green field : Using AWS for development of a new video service used internally at Amazon.

The video goes into details on how AWS can reduce costs, improve development productivity, enable elastic infrastructure, increase scalability, and improve high availability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45Uo5rw6YY

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Oracle on AWS white papers

Some great new Oracle on AWS white papers:

Best Practices for running Oracle Database on Amazon Web Services
http://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/best-practices-for-running-oracle-database-on-aws.pdf
Advanced Architectures for Oracle Database on Amazon EC2
http://d3ulk6ur3a3ha.cloudfront.net/enterprise-marketing/Oracle/AWSAdvancedArchitecturesforOracleDBonEC2.pdf
Strategies for Migrating Oracle Database to AWS
http://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/strategies-for-migrating-oracle-database-to-aws.pdf
Determining the IOPS Needs for Oracle Database on AWS
http://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/determining-iops-needs-for-oracle-database-on-aws.pdf
Choosing the Operating System for Oracle Workloads on Amazon EC2
http://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/choosing-os-for-oracle-workloads-on-ec2.pdf