Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a wide range of operating environments to run your Oracle workloads, each offering different benefits depending on the use case and operating model. The operating environment you select can have a material impact on the cost of running the platform, especially the licensing of proprietary Oracle software. AWS provides Amazon EC2 bare metal instances with the capability for customers to bring their own hypervisor and opens the door for more flexible licensing arrangements. This whitepaper introduces the value proposition of running an Oracle Hypervisor on Amazon EC2 bare metal instances and shows how you can combine the agility and elasticity benefits of AWS with the cost efficiency of leveraging additional licensing optimizations.
All Oracle licensing policies and costs in this whitepaper are for informational purposes only and are based on the information available at the time of publication. AWS recommends that customers consult their own Oracle license agreement for more specific information.
