Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides 2 types of services.
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) which is fully managed service. Few clicks you got the Database up and running and scalable with few clicks. All the backup’s, patching, storage and high availability are managed by AWS.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) allows full control over setup of infrastructure and database. So we will be in charge of backup’s, patches, storage provisioning…etc.
There are 2 options of pricing, one with Amazon’s Oracle license included and the other with Bring your own license. Prices are reasonable and it’s per hour usage. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/oracle/pricing/
Amazon RDS and EC2 Available for Oracle, MySql, Sql server. OS, Linux, RHEL, SLES, Windows, SQL are available.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed database service. RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Oracle Database deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy multiple editions of Oracle Database in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable hardware capacity. Amazon RDS frees you up to focus on application development by managing time-consuming database administration tasks including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and hardware scaling.
Amazon EC2, has 3 types of pricing involved depending on the type of instance you choose (On-demand, Reserved, and Spot Instances) and all are pay for what you use method.
AWS free usage FAQ – https://aws.amazon.com/free/faqs/
Attached are 2 examples of Oracle DB setup using EC2 and RDS. Also attached few PDF for reference.
Create instance in EC2 in AWSCreate Oracle RDS instance in Amazon
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