Yesterday, Amazon launched a new feature for their RDS (Relational Database Services) product that adds Oracle database as a service offerings to their existing MySQL offerings. We've always believed that RDS is one of the more valuable AWS offerings, and you can now leverage Oracle RDS instances in enStratus.
Provisioning an Oracle instance works much the same as provisioning MySQL instances has worked:
You can select either the included license option (selected above) or a "bring your own license" option, depending on whether you are leveraging an existing enterprise Oracle license and the AWS "bring your own license" program.
enStratus then instructs AWS to provision your new Oracle instance and it shows up in your enStratus console:
We'll have an update for a pretty Oracle icon in our next formal release!
At this point, you can leverage all of your normal Oracle tools to interact with your Oracle instance, as well as control network access through enStratus.
Life gets more interesting, however, when you include your Oracle RDS instance in an enStratus automated deployment. Applications managed by enStratus can be configured to point to a data source in your Oracle RDS instance. enStratus will automatically configure those applications to talk to Oracle and configure the network rules for the communications to occur.
To leverage RDS services, you must first sign up for RDS with AWS. enStratus will automatically detect that you have signed up and a "Relational Databases" menu item will appear under your "Platform" top level menu.
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