Licenses topic can be quite complex. That’s why I have decided to write this very short story to give you an overview of the main Oracle licensing options on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Visual overview
AWS is considered as an “Authorized Cloud Environment” by Oracle.
License included
You can use Amazon RDS for Oracle, this way AWS manages the licensing
for you (you don’t have to think about it, you can contact the AWS support for both Amazon RDS and Oracle Database specific service requests).
Bring You Own License (“BYOL”)
You can import your existing Oracle licenses to AWS.
It is worth noting here that the options you can use depend on your license specifications.
- RDS for Oracle (this way you can benefit from Amazon RDS features)
Also worth noting that for “multi-az” feature you will need more licenses - Amazon EC2 with dedicated host, dedicated instance or shared tenancy depending on your license.
The end
This story was very short and showed the basics of Oracle licensing options on AWS. There are other options available (Amazon EC2 bare metal,VMware Cloud on AWS, …).
References
Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment
https://www.oracle.com/assets/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf
Oracle FAQ on AWS
https://aws.amazon.com/oracle/faq/
