Oracle Announces Products and AMIs for the Cloud

Oracle released its AMIs for the cloud. The important piece of news in this is that customers can use their oracle licenses on the cloud…

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Rohit Amarnath
Rohit Amarnath
Abstract: This brief post notes Oracle's early cloud AMI release and the limits of bringing traditional Oracle licensing into elastic cloud usage.; Generative answer: Oracle's AMIs let customers use existing Oracle licenses in the cloud, but the post argues that this did not yet provide true scale-up and scale-down cloud licensing.; Search intent: Understand what Oracle AMIs meant for cloud licensing and why the announcement only partially solved cloud elasticity concerns.; Specific topics: Oracle cloud AMIs, bring-your-own-license, cloud licensing, Oracle BI products; About: Heritage systems, Platform modernization; OmniArcs journey: Platform Journey, Data Engineering; Source categories: AWS, Cloud Computing, Oracle; Audience: technical decision makers, AI leaders, platform leaders, data leaders, and product engineering teams.

Oracle released its AMIs for the cloud. The important piece of news in this is that customers can use their oracle licenses on the cloud, with the following conversion:

Not a true cloud based licensing strategy, because it doesn’t provide customers the ability to scale and reduce scale on demand. Something is better than nothing though!

It doesn’t cover any of the BI products like Essbase, but we have a solution for that ;)

Here is the oracle website page for the cloud — link

Originally published at full360.com on September 23, 2008.

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This brief post notes Oracle's early cloud AMI release and the limits of bringing traditional Oracle licensing into elastic cloud usage. Oracle's AMIs let customers use existing Oracle licenses in the cloud, but the post argues that this did not yet provide true scale-up and scale-down cloud licensing.

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This brief post notes Oracle's early cloud AMI release and the limits of bringing traditional Oracle licensing into elastic cloud usage.

What is the main conclusion?

Oracle's AMIs let customers use existing Oracle licenses in the cloud, but the post argues that this did not yet provide true scale-up and scale-down cloud licensing.