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Oracle Database to Hit Amazon

It says folks with Oracle licenses will be able to run it without incurring additional software licensing or support charges

Amazon - with Oracle's blessings - is planning to add Oracle's Database 11g Release 2 to its cloudware next quarter as part of its Relational Database Service (RDS).

It says folks with Oracle licenses will be able to run the thing without incurring additional software licensing or support charges.

Those without an Oracle license will pay hourly licensing with no upfront fees or long-term commitments.

The hourly rate depends on the Oracle Database edition and the size of the DB Instance. The widgetry will also be available as Reserved DB Instances, which offers a discounted hourly usage charge in exchange for a one-time up-front fee for each DB Instance. Both one-year and three-year reservation terms will be available.

No pricing details are available yet and Amazon didn't let on what its kickback to Oracle will be.

Oracle said it will support customers who use their existing license in the cloud. Amazon will support the others with Oracle backing it up.

Amazon RDS already supports MySQL, the open source database that now belongs to Oracle complements of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Reportedly responding to demand, AWS VP of database services Raju Gulabani says he's "ready to have conversations with interested customers so they can plan for future deployments."

Amazon RDS is supposed to cut the time needed to provision a relational database and its underlying infrastructure hardware and software from days to minutes. It also manages ongoing maintenance tasks such as updating database software, taking continuous database backups for point-in-time recovery, and exposing key operational metrics via a web dashboard. And of course it can be scaled.

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

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Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara

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