From PC World: Amazon Web Services now lets companies run Oracle’s database for about 3 cents per hour, while at the same time adding more options for enterprises that want to move high performance workloads to the cloud.
The offering that makes this possible is Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), which aims to offer cheap and resizable capacity, and take over many database administration tasks.
The last two months have seen Amazon step up its efforts to make RDS and its cloud a viable option for running databases. Improvements include using SQL Server Enterprise Edition without buying separate licenses, the general availability of its own MySQL-compatible Aurora database, and an increase of the maximum database storage size.
To that AWS has now added the ability to run RDS for Oracle on Amazon’s T2 and R3 virtual server or instance families.
The T2 virtual servers are recommended for databases that don’t use the full CPU often or consistently, but occasionally need to burst to higher CPU performance, such as for small workloads in test and development environments. Addressing both the environments is important as Amazon works to convince more IT departments that RDS and its cloud is indeed a viable option for running databases.
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