Oracle Database is supported both self-managed on EC2, as well as with a fully-managed database as a service offering in the form of RDS Oracle.
1. Overpaying on Auto Insurance
Believe it or not, the average American family still overspends by $461/year¹ on car insurance.
Sometimes it’s even worse: I switched carriers last year and saved literally $1,300/year.
Here’s how to quickly see how much you’re being overcharged (takes maybe a couple of minutes):
- Pull up Coverage.com – it’s a free site that will compare offers for you
- Answer the questions on the page
- It’ll spit out a bunch of insurance offers for you.
That’s literally it. You’ll likely save yourself a bunch of money.
2. Overlook how much you can save when shopping online
Many people over
1. Overpaying on Auto Insurance
Believe it or not, the average American family still overspends by $461/year¹ on car insurance.
Sometimes it’s even worse: I switched carriers last year and saved literally $1,300/year.
Here’s how to quickly see how much you’re being overcharged (takes maybe a couple of minutes):
- Pull up Coverage.com – it’s a free site that will compare offers for you
- Answer the questions on the page
- It’ll spit out a bunch of insurance offers for you.
That’s literally it. You’ll likely save yourself a bunch of money.
2. Overlook how much you can save when shopping online
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- Compare prices across stores – If a better deal is found, it alerts you before you spend more than necessary.
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3. Not Investing in Real Estate (Starting at Just $20)
Real estate has long been a favorite investment of the wealthy, but owning property has often felt out of reach for many—until now.
With platforms like Ark7, you can start investing in rental properties with as little as $20 per share.
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4. Wasting Time on Unproductive Habits
As a rule of thumb, I’d ignore most sites that claim to pay for surveys, but a few legitimate ones actually offer decent payouts.
I usually use Survey Junkie. You basically just get paid to give your opinions on different products/services, etc. Perfect for multitasking while watching TV!
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5. Paying off credit card debt on your own
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Simple as that. You’ll likely end up paying less than you owed and could be debt free in 12-24 months. Here’s a link to National Debt Relief.
6. Overspending on Mortgages
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Basically, anything you can install on a local/private datacenter box can be installed in an EC2 instance of the appropriate type, provided it can run in a virtualized environment. We were running Glassfish in one organization’s EC2 instances and a Spring Boot app in another case. There’s no reason (that I can think of, anyway) that WebLogic can’t be run in EC2 for your organization.
That said, installing and configuring it manually is one thing. Automating that process might be trickier. It’s been a while since I installed and administered WebLogic (though I used to be a certified admin long a
Basically, anything you can install on a local/private datacenter box can be installed in an EC2 instance of the appropriate type, provided it can run in a virtualized environment. We were running Glassfish in one organization’s EC2 instances and a Spring Boot app in another case. There’s no reason (that I can think of, anyway) that WebLogic can’t be run in EC2 for your organization.
That said, installing and configuring it manually is one thing. Automating that process might be trickier. It’s been a while since I installed and administered WebLogic (though I used to be a certified admin long ago). There might be Ansible playbooks or Chef cookbooks or maybe even a marketplace offering already. Otherwise you’ll have to figure out a way to get it done, if you care about automating your infrastructure (and you should).
Aside from the relevant AWS knowledge and Oracle database knowledge, another important aspect is the Site Reliability Engineering for database - Database reliability engineering
Running a RDBMS on AWS RDS (or any cloud provider) should make use of their managed services and monitoring. It’s not a simple lift-and-shift of a traditionally managed database.
Maybe, probably not. Actually, nearly certainly not - but not completely certainly not.
Note: first and foremost, it’s completely illegal. The macOS/OS X end user license agreement specifies that you have a right to use the OS on hardware made by Apple, no place else.
Now, to the meat of it.
AWS creates virtualized hardware using the Xen hypervisor, possibly the open source version, possibly supported by Citrix. If you’re going to do this, you need to know a pile about how the Xen stack performs guest initialization, how it creates abstraction for virtual Xen interrupts, facilitates access to Xen
Maybe, probably not. Actually, nearly certainly not - but not completely certainly not.
Note: first and foremost, it’s completely illegal. The macOS/OS X end user license agreement specifies that you have a right to use the OS on hardware made by Apple, no place else.
Now, to the meat of it.
AWS creates virtualized hardware using the Xen hypervisor, possibly the open source version, possibly supported by Citrix. If you’re going to do this, you need to know a pile about how the Xen stack performs guest initialization, how it creates abstraction for virtual Xen interrupts, facilitates access to XenStore, and how device probing works for paravirtualized devices such as disk and network interfaces.
Got that? Good. (ok, I can see from here: you do not “got that”; it’s OK, I’m not going to explain it, I’m just going to tell you where to look so you can start figuring this out yourself)
You also need to know how macOS works, which means down at the bottom you need to understand Darwin. It helps if you have previous experience with BSD, and with NextStep. It’s not insurmountable if you don’t, but there’s a pile of code in there that doesn’t make sense without context that’s 30 years old at this point.
So here’s the path:
There’s one other hyper-rabid community which bemoans the lack of official support on AWS, and has for years, and eventually said “fuck it, let’s figure this out”: the OpenBSD users. So many, many people have attempted to, with various degrees of success, create OpenBSD AMIs on AWS.
If I really, really wanted to get macOS running on AWS, I’d
- become expert in booting macOS on a variety of “hackintosh” configurations (harder than it sounds)
- become expert in divining the specifics of how the paravirtualized hardware interfaces in an EC2 instance feature from the perspective of drivers (noting that for most of the OS types “legally” operating on AWS, that’s all been abstracted out in drivers provide by Amazon/Xen(possibly Citrix).
- figure out a mapping between hardware I know I can boot macOS on, and the virtualized hardware that I appear to have on a variety of types of EC2 instances, and attempt to converge onto booting on physical hardware is pretty close to some set of virtual hardware in EC2
- read up on what the OpenBSD crew has been doing here.
- insert Tab A into Slot B and hope for the best
On the OpenBSD front, the first work I found was How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images by Colin Percival circa 2014, noting he’d been doing it for three years. More recently, there seem to be some alternatives, such as OpenBSD on AWS : An Unexpected Journey by Antoine Jacoutot cica 2016.
I’m sort of out of that corner of activity at the moment, but the OpenBSD guys are the leading source on “how to get stuff running on AWS that Amazon isn’t terribly keen to have running there”.
Best of luck.
Where do I start?
I’m a huge financial nerd, and have spent an embarrassing amount of time talking to people about their money habits.
Here are the biggest mistakes people are making and how to fix them:
Not having a separate high interest savings account
Having a separate account allows you to see the results of all your hard work and keep your money separate so you're less tempted to spend it.
Plus with rates above 5.00%, the interest you can earn compared to most banks really adds up.
Here is a list of the top savings accounts available today. Deposit $5 before moving on because this is one of th
Where do I start?
I’m a huge financial nerd, and have spent an embarrassing amount of time talking to people about their money habits.
Here are the biggest mistakes people are making and how to fix them:
Not having a separate high interest savings account
Having a separate account allows you to see the results of all your hard work and keep your money separate so you're less tempted to spend it.
Plus with rates above 5.00%, the interest you can earn compared to most banks really adds up.
Here is a list of the top savings accounts available today. Deposit $5 before moving on because this is one of the biggest mistakes and easiest ones to fix.
Overpaying on car insurance
You’ve heard it a million times before, but the average American family still overspends by $417/year on car insurance.
If you’ve been with the same insurer for years, chances are you are one of them.
Pull up Coverage.com, a free site that will compare prices for you, answer the questions on the page, and it will show you how much you could be saving.
That’s it. You’ll likely be saving a bunch of money. Here’s a link to give it a try.
Consistently being in debt
If you’ve got $10K+ in debt (credit cards…medical bills…anything really) you could use a debt relief program and potentially reduce by over 20%.
Here’s how to see if you qualify:
Head over to this Debt Relief comparison website here, then simply answer the questions to see if you qualify.
It’s as simple as that. You’ll likely end up paying less than you owed before and you could be debt free in as little as 2 years.
Missing out on free money to invest
It’s no secret that millionaires love investing, but for the rest of us, it can seem out of reach.
Times have changed. There are a number of investing platforms that will give you a bonus to open an account and get started. All you have to do is open the account and invest at least $25, and you could get up to $1000 in bonus.
Pretty sweet deal right? Here is a link to some of the best options.
Having bad credit
A low credit score can come back to bite you in so many ways in the future.
From that next rental application to getting approved for any type of loan or credit card, if you have a bad history with credit, the good news is you can fix it.
Head over to BankRate.com and answer a few questions to see if you qualify. It only takes a few minutes and could save you from a major upset down the line.
How to get started
Hope this helps! Here are the links to get started:
Have a separate savings account
Stop overpaying for car insurance
Finally get out of debt
Start investing with a free bonus
Fix your credit
You may be slightly confused about what AWS provides...
AWS is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) not Platform as a Service (PaaS) so you can run anything you want. AWS allows you to run any OS (practically) and any web/application server(s) that runs on the OS of your choice. The limiting factor is the choices you make after choosing AWS - which OS, which Ruby version, which web/app Server, which JDK version, etc. all influence which version of the framework (RoR, Grails, etc.) you can use. But these are not AWS-specific concerns simply building your stack.
AWS services available (probably
You may be slightly confused about what AWS provides...
AWS is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) not Platform as a Service (PaaS) so you can run anything you want. AWS allows you to run any OS (practically) and any web/application server(s) that runs on the OS of your choice. The limiting factor is the choices you make after choosing AWS - which OS, which Ruby version, which web/app Server, which JDK version, etc. all influence which version of the framework (RoR, Grails, etc.) you can use. But these are not AWS-specific concerns simply building your stack.
AWS services available (probably incomplete):
*Virtual Machine (OS): EC2
*Messaging: SQS
*Load Balancing: ELB
*Database: SimpleDB and/or RDS (mysql)
*Storage: S3
Of course, there are lots of services on top of AWS that provide standard deployment environments for specific languages and platforms (PaaS - see Heroku for RoR, Cloud Foundry for Grails) and some that are even more broad attempting simplify more environments (DotCloud).
Yes. You can use Oracle Database SE1 or SE2 on a Pay-As-You-Go license.
Obviously, this does not extend to Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, and you cannot use self-managed Oracle on “naked” EC2. You need to go for AWS’ Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering which is RDS.
Here’s the thing: I wish I had known these money secrets sooner. They’ve helped so many people save hundreds, secure their family’s future, and grow their bank accounts—myself included.
And honestly? Putting them to use was way easier than I expected. I bet you can knock out at least three or four of these right now—yes, even from your phone.
Don’t wait like I did. Go ahead and start using these money secrets today!
1. Cancel Your Car Insurance
You might not even realize it, but your car insurance company is probably overcharging you. In fact, they’re kind of counting on you not noticing. Luckily,
Here’s the thing: I wish I had known these money secrets sooner. They’ve helped so many people save hundreds, secure their family’s future, and grow their bank accounts—myself included.
And honestly? Putting them to use was way easier than I expected. I bet you can knock out at least three or four of these right now—yes, even from your phone.
Don’t wait like I did. Go ahead and start using these money secrets today!
1. Cancel Your Car Insurance
You might not even realize it, but your car insurance company is probably overcharging you. In fact, they’re kind of counting on you not noticing. Luckily, this problem is easy to fix.
Don’t waste your time browsing insurance sites for a better deal. A company called Insurify shows you all your options at once — people who do this save up to $996 per year.
If you tell them a bit about yourself and your vehicle, they’ll send you personalized quotes so you can compare them and find the best one for you.
Tired of overpaying for car insurance? It takes just five minutes to compare your options with Insurify and see how much you could save on car insurance.
2. Ask This Company to Get a Big Chunk of Your Debt Forgiven
A company called National Debt Relief could convince your lenders to simply get rid of a big chunk of what you owe. No bankruptcy, no loans — you don’t even need to have good credit.
If you owe at least $10,000 in unsecured debt (credit card debt, personal loans, medical bills, etc.), National Debt Relief’s experts will build you a monthly payment plan. As your payments add up, they negotiate with your creditors to reduce the amount you owe. You then pay off the rest in a lump sum.
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3. You Can Become a Real Estate Investor for as Little as $10
Take a look at some of the world’s wealthiest people. What do they have in common? Many invest in large private real estate deals. And here’s the thing: There’s no reason you can’t, too — for as little as $10.
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The news is a heated subject these days. It’s hard not to have an opinion on it.
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Plus, it’s totally anonymous, so no one will judge you for that hot take.
When you take a quick survey (some are less than three minutes), you’ll earn points you can exchange for up to $50 in cash or gift cards to places like Walmart and Amazon. Plus, Penny Hoarder readers will get an extra 500 points for registering and another 1,000 points after completing their first survey.
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It may be technically possible to run OSX on AWS by using a bare metal instance. This is an instance where there is only a very minimal hypervisor (specifically, the Nitro hypervisor sitting on an ASIC).
Announcing General Availability of Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances
But it is not legally possible to do so, because Apple does not authorize their OS to run on any non-Apple hardware. That doesn’t stop the “Hackintosh” crowd, so maybe the same hacks will work on AWS bare metal.
As others have pointed out, the AWS Service Terms require that
In connection with your use of the Services, you are respo
It may be technically possible to run OSX on AWS by using a bare metal instance. This is an instance where there is only a very minimal hypervisor (specifically, the Nitro hypervisor sitting on an ASIC).
Announcing General Availability of Amazon EC2 Bare Metal Instances
But it is not legally possible to do so, because Apple does not authorize their OS to run on any non-Apple hardware. That doesn’t stop the “Hackintosh” crowd, so maybe the same hacks will work on AWS bare metal.
As others have pointed out, the AWS Service Terms require that
In connection with your use of the Services, you are responsible for maintaining licenses and adhering to the license terms of any software you run.
Do note that a bare metal instance is an entire physical server, which would have something on the order of 48 cores and 384GB to 512GB of RAM. In other words, it would be very expensive.
You totally can. Be sure to select the right size and instance type if your application requires a good enough memory and storage performance.
The Amazon retail system used to run Oracle database in 1999. At that time it was one of the largest transactional Oracle databases in the world. Transportable Tablespaces (an Oracle database feature) was actually built for Amazon.
So Amazon was once a very significant Oracle customer, but the money Amazon pays to Oracle annually is very small for a company of this size (Amazon will ditch Oracle by 2020, despite what Larry Ellison says | TheINQUIRER). For reference, I know of c
The Amazon retail system used to run Oracle database in 1999. At that time it was one of the largest transactional Oracle databases in the world. Transportable Tablespaces (an Oracle database feature) was actually built for Amazon.
So Amazon was once a very significant Oracle customer, but the money Amazon pays to Oracle annually is very small for a company of this size (Amazon will ditch Oracle by 2020, despite what Larry Ellison says | TheINQUIRER). For reference, I know of companies with market caps <$10B buying $20M of Oracle in a year. So for Amazon with a $700B market cap, spending $50M on Oracle in a year is highly unusual and confirms that Amazon is successfully using non-Oracle databases for the majority of its use cases.
Oracle databases are definitely the minority inside Amazon, but some systems require it (for example, Peoplesoft for HR, or Oracle Financials for iExpense, Payroll, AP and AR). These are back end processes that are very difficult to move away from (the alternative is SAP, with its own proprietary HANA database).
You can absolutely do this - it is possible to either host the database your self on an EC2 VM instance or use the AWS high level database service RDS that supports Oracle as one of its engines.
Sadly Oracle have done their best to make their own, not very successful, cloud offering “competitive” in at least this area and charges twice as high license fees for its database in competing clouds like AWS so I would instead personally strongly consider using the PostgreSQL that is fairly compatible with Oracle at a fraction of the price and also is available as part of Amazon RDS service or even be
You can absolutely do this - it is possible to either host the database your self on an EC2 VM instance or use the AWS high level database service RDS that supports Oracle as one of its engines.
Sadly Oracle have done their best to make their own, not very successful, cloud offering “competitive” in at least this area and charges twice as high license fees for its database in competing clouds like AWS so I would instead personally strongly consider using the PostgreSQL that is fairly compatible with Oracle at a fraction of the price and also is available as part of Amazon RDS service or even better the more cloud native Amazon Aurora service.
Today modern open source SQL engines like PostgreSQL or MariaDB provides all the features and performance that an absolute majority of organisations need and is therefore much better alternatives than the expensive “old guard” database engines with their legacy CPU core based licensing and complex rules that may lead to costly fines if not followed to the letter…
Yes, it is possible to run CUDA on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. AWS offers several GPU-powered EC2 instances that are optimized for running CUDA workloads. Some of the instances have NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and can be used for parallel computing, machine learning, and other GPU-accelerated workloads. However, users should be aware of the costs associated with using GPU instances on AWS, as they can be significantly higher than using non-GPU instances.
I once met a man who drove a modest Toyota Corolla, wore beat-up sneakers, and looked like he’d lived the same way for decades. But what really caught my attention was when he casually mentioned he was retired at 45 with more money than he could ever spend. I couldn’t help but ask, “How did you do it?”
He smiled and said, “The secret to saving money is knowing where to look for the waste—and car insurance is one of the easiest places to start.”
He then walked me through a few strategies that I’d never thought of before. Here’s what I learned:
1. Make insurance companies fight for your business
Mos
I once met a man who drove a modest Toyota Corolla, wore beat-up sneakers, and looked like he’d lived the same way for decades. But what really caught my attention was when he casually mentioned he was retired at 45 with more money than he could ever spend. I couldn’t help but ask, “How did you do it?”
He smiled and said, “The secret to saving money is knowing where to look for the waste—and car insurance is one of the easiest places to start.”
He then walked me through a few strategies that I’d never thought of before. Here’s what I learned:
1. Make insurance companies fight for your business
Most people just stick with the same insurer year after year, but that’s what the companies are counting on. This guy used tools like Coverage.com to compare rates every time his policy came up for renewal. It only took him a few minutes, and he said he’d saved hundreds each year by letting insurers compete for his business.
Click here to try Coverage.com and see how much you could save today.
2. Take advantage of safe driver programs
He mentioned that some companies reward good drivers with significant discounts. By signing up for a program that tracked his driving habits for just a month, he qualified for a lower rate. “It’s like a test where you already know the answers,” he joked.
You can find a list of insurance companies offering safe driver discounts here and start saving on your next policy.
3. Bundle your policies
He bundled his auto insurance with his home insurance and saved big. “Most companies will give you a discount if you combine your policies with them. It’s easy money,” he explained. If you haven’t bundled yet, ask your insurer what discounts they offer—or look for new ones that do.
4. Drop coverage you don’t need
He also emphasized reassessing coverage every year. If your car isn’t worth much anymore, it might be time to drop collision or comprehensive coverage. “You shouldn’t be paying more to insure the car than it’s worth,” he said.
5. Look for hidden fees or overpriced add-ons
One of his final tips was to avoid extras like roadside assistance, which can often be purchased elsewhere for less. “It’s those little fees you don’t think about that add up,” he warned.
The Secret? Stop Overpaying
The real “secret” isn’t about cutting corners—it’s about being proactive. Car insurance companies are counting on you to stay complacent, but with tools like Coverage.com and a little effort, you can make sure you’re only paying for what you need—and saving hundreds in the process.
If you’re ready to start saving, take a moment to:
- Compare rates now on Coverage.com
- Check if you qualify for safe driver discounts
- Reevaluate your coverage today
Saving money on auto insurance doesn’t have to be complicated—you just have to know where to look. If you'd like to support my work, feel free to use the links in this post—they help me continue creating valuable content.
Onlive was arguably the platform with greatest reach to provide a virtual gaming desktop that has yet been seen. Sony bought them up and incorporates some of that technology within their Playstation console. Microsoft has been pushing towards the same end with Xbox One.
Sony buys what's left of OnLive, service shuts down April 30th
With the fall of Onlive one customer started to do exactly what you are seeking. Creating a virtual gaming desktop within EC2. Their work can be found on the following blog. This is a far detailed set of how-to from someone who has accomplished what you are looking fo
Onlive was arguably the platform with greatest reach to provide a virtual gaming desktop that has yet been seen. Sony bought them up and incorporates some of that technology within their Playstation console. Microsoft has been pushing towards the same end with Xbox One.
Sony buys what's left of OnLive, service shuts down April 30th
With the fall of Onlive one customer started to do exactly what you are seeking. Creating a virtual gaming desktop within EC2. Their work can be found on the following blog. This is a far detailed set of how-to from someone who has accomplished what you are looking for (assuming the gaming part of your question is an important factor).
Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2!
No in order to run an EC2 image you need to import an OS image to an AMI. The AMI import won’t import an OS X image. Heck, it won’t import a Linux image unless it recognizes the kernel version. Also EC2 uses Xen which doesn’t support OS X to my knowledge. Even if you could OS X will refuse to run on non Apple hardware.
Honestly, the closest you could get would be a bare metal EC2 instance running vmware, virtualbox,or the like with a VM of OS X server. OS X server can be licensed to run in a vm, and supports vmware. You could also run in in Vmware Cloud for AWS.
No, Oracle or Oracle Corporation is a company and needs real people to run.
If you are asking about Oracle products, then you need to mention which among its thousands of products you are trying to run on Netbook (Do they still exist).
Additionally, for each Oracle product installation, its documentation clearly mentions the pre-requisites to run that product successfully. Make sure you netbook meets those requirements.
Before exadata existed, Oracle database run on commodity hardware which is unaware of database. Now since Oracle owns hardware(sun) it has optimized its software to run better on its own hardware. By doing this Oracle claims that now its software is hardware aware. This piece of optimization where in Oracle software understands that its running on its own proprietary hardware is coined as Engineered Systems ( hardware and software engineered to run optimally ) . Exadata is one such engineered system from Oracle , which is specifically concentrated on database technology.
There were a series of articles and presentations at the last year’s re:invent conference in which a lot of the details were revealed. A good compilation and summary can be seen here: AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro
In short, they started with a plain Linux distribution that runs Xen VMs under a largely unmodified Xen hypervisor. This OS also apparently implements an API that offers the primitives necessary to launch, terminate and monitor the EC2 instances running on it. This consumed significant amounts of memory that meant the VMs had to be slightly less memory than the total
There were a series of articles and presentations at the last year’s re:invent conference in which a lot of the details were revealed. A good compilation and summary can be seen here: AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro
In short, they started with a plain Linux distribution that runs Xen VMs under a largely unmodified Xen hypervisor. This OS also apparently implements an API that offers the primitives necessary to launch, terminate and monitor the EC2 instances running on it. This consumed significant amounts of memory that meant the VMs had to be slightly less memory than the total available from the hardware.
Over the years this evolved to the current Nitro implementation which is based on KVM and offloads a lot of the work to dedicated custom hardware that exposes multiple PCI devices, which can be mapped individually to the VMs. The VMs are now running under a smaller custom Linux-based OS. This setup has much less overhead than the initial Xen implementation that wasn’t assisted by hardware and can allocate virtually all the memory to the running VMs.
For the recently launched bare metal instances they also have custom hardware that implements those primitives for the bare metal instances.
Amazon Web Services supports Oracle databases and offer enterprises a number of solutions for migrating and deploying their enterprise applications on the AWS cloud.
But the answer of your question is NO. You can host oracle databases in AWS . Oracle is considered a big competitor of AWS and run their own applications in their own cloud. But AWS has RDS system for oracle deployment.
Amazon RDS for Oracle is a fully managed commercial database that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Oracle deployments in the cloud. Amazon RDS frees you up to focus on innovation and application developmen
Amazon Web Services supports Oracle databases and offer enterprises a number of solutions for migrating and deploying their enterprise applications on the AWS cloud.
But the answer of your question is NO. You can host oracle databases in AWS . Oracle is considered a big competitor of AWS and run their own applications in their own cloud. But AWS has RDS system for oracle deployment.
Amazon RDS for Oracle is a fully managed commercial database that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Oracle deployments in the cloud. Amazon RDS frees you up to focus on innovation and application development by managing time-consuming database administration tasks including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and hardware scaling.
I hope you get an idea.
Yes, you can run Windows on an EC2 instance on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS provides a variety of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that include Windows Server editions. You can choose the desired Windows version when launching an EC2 instance and configure it according to your needs.
Oracle Exadata is a computer system that provides exceptionally high database performance. It is referred to as an, Engineered System, for the reason that the hardware, storage and software all come together in a single machine and that they are all co-engineered together in a way that derives the most benefit from each component. The key compon...
I guess you could:
- Install Docker on the EC2 instance.
- Deploy the following image:
You need to be aware of the following aspects:
- The image is meant to be used for dev and testing, not prod.
- You need to take care of docker and dynamodb upgrades, patches, performance, backups, scaling, monitoring, etc.
- You’ll lose most of the advantages that come with using the DynamoDb managed service. See #2.
Probably a more important question is: Why? Why do you want to run DybamoDb on EC2?
The answer is most likely yes, but you have to be more specific about what you mean by “Python server”. Python is just a language, there are a lot of servers of various kinds written in Python or written in other languages but intended for use with Python.
Yes, it is generally recommended that you keep your database on a separate server(s) than your application servers.
Yes, it is possible to set up WordPress to point to a database on a different server.
Yes, the AWS free tier allows you to run both a t1.micro Linux instance and a t1.micro Windows instance. However, a t1.micro is so inexpensive, that I would recommend you simply stick with the OS that you are most comfortable with instead of trying to save a few bucks a month.
Note: A t1.micro may not be sufficient to run your database, due to the limited memory and CPU throttling.
Why not just pro
Yes, it is generally recommended that you keep your database on a separate server(s) than your application servers.
Yes, it is possible to set up WordPress to point to a database on a different server.
Yes, the AWS free tier allows you to run both a t1.micro Linux instance and a t1.micro Windows instance. However, a t1.micro is so inexpensive, that I would recommend you simply stick with the OS that you are most comfortable with instead of trying to save a few bucks a month.
Note: A t1.micro may not be sufficient to run your database, due to the limited memory and CPU throttling.
Why not just provision a MySQL server with Amazon RDS? The m1.small RDS server falls into the Free Tier and will get you better performance than a t1.micro you run yourself.
If you want to run MySQL on your own Linux instance, here's an article I wrote for Amazon on how to do this using a separate EBS volume. Make sure you use the latest AMIs for your favorite Linux distro:
Let me give you the short, high level answer. Oracle Exadata is essentially a database appliance. What this means is, it is a full stack solution to run a big, powerful, high performing Oracle database in a “box”. Keep in mind that this is a “big” box, big not as in sheer volume size but it is a single piece of hardware that incorporates the database engine, the storage engines and the networking components you need to create a full stack solution.
Back when there was no appliance, IT departments would need to procure machines to host the nodes of a database cluster, the network switches and in
Let me give you the short, high level answer. Oracle Exadata is essentially a database appliance. What this means is, it is a full stack solution to run a big, powerful, high performing Oracle database in a “box”. Keep in mind that this is a “big” box, big not as in sheer volume size but it is a single piece of hardware that incorporates the database engine, the storage engines and the networking components you need to create a full stack solution.
Back when there was no appliance, IT departments would need to procure machines to host the nodes of a database cluster, the network switches and interconnects to wire these nodes together to create the cluster and the storage that contained the actual data. This would involve a lot of engineering work to select the components that together formed a good stack or solution if you will. The operating system version, the database version, the networking component model and make, firmware version everything had to be picked after substantial testing and then you would need to engineer the right way to set everything up. The appliance removes all this work and extra engineering complexity because everything is pre selected, tested and certified to work well together and all this at a small fraction of the footprint in the data center.
There is more to Exadata. It includes an Oracle RAC database but enhances it in some ways. It moves the actual computation to the storage tier and thereby dramatically reduces the data transferred over the network (from disk to compute). While this paradigm ins’t exclusive to Exadata, it is part of an important evolution in data processing that is critical to perform large scale data computations in the era of big data. Combined with flash storage and many specific query optimizations that are possible in an Exadata environment, it was a game changer when introduced by Oracle.
Hope this mini introduction is helpful.
If you buy Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) you are essentially buying a database appliance by the hour. You don't have to worry about OS patches/updates, DB software patches/updates, etc. You just get DB function.
If you buy an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance and load your own DB, you have to manage all that stuff yourself. The plus is that you know exactly what you're running. The minus is that it's much more expensive in manpower, time, etc.
If you price the two services in $/hour, you find that it optically appears that the EC2 solution is less expensive. If you actually
If you buy Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) you are essentially buying a database appliance by the hour. You don't have to worry about OS patches/updates, DB software patches/updates, etc. You just get DB function.
If you buy an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance and load your own DB, you have to manage all that stuff yourself. The plus is that you know exactly what you're running. The minus is that it's much more expensive in manpower, time, etc.
If you price the two services in $/hour, you find that it optically appears that the EC2 solution is less expensive. If you actually benchmark them, you get more IOPS from the RDS solution than the EC2 solution, making it that much more attractive.
See Andy Jassy’s tweet from last week:
“In latest episode of "uh huh, keep talkin' Larry," Amazon’s Consumer business turned off its Oracle data warehouse Nov 1 and moved to Redshift. By end of 2018, they'll have 88% of their Oracle DBs (and 97% of critical system DBs) moved to Aurora and DynamoDB. #DBFreedom”
To give a simple answer: if you use their licenses then $202 each 7 day week. Of course you need to then factor in the other servers, but this is the cost you should expect for an average sized database you'd deploy this way.
Oracle itself is going to offer instances. https://cloud.oracle.com/mycloud/f?p=service:database:0 - so it will be interesting to see how the pricing compares.
Yes you can for running your machine learning python codes. You can try EC2 with pre-installed python installed on it. With some pre-installed like the one mentioned by Kiran Kumar if you want try something with in the free tier. If you have planned to do some linear regression, KNN application, etc with lot of computation, T2 micro can’t support. You can choose C type instances for complex calculations that require more RAM.
If you are looking EC2 instances as part of your work or any POC try P type instances as amazon recommends them for Machine learning and high performance computing.
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Yes you can for running your machine learning python codes. You can try EC2 with pre-installed python installed on it. With some pre-installed like the one mentioned by Kiran Kumar if you want try something with in the free tier. If you have planned to do some linear regression, KNN application, etc with lot of computation, T2 micro can’t support. You can choose C type instances for complex calculations that require more RAM.
If you are looking EC2 instances as part of your work or any POC try P type instances as amazon recommends them for Machine learning and high performance computing.
Amazon EC2 P3 – Ideal for Machine Learning and HPC - AWS
Hope it helps
Typical uses of EC2 are done for any server you want to put into the cloud for some of the reasons I've listed below. The only servers I've encountered trouble with moving to EC2 are latency and bandwidth intensive (xray and 3D imaging in my case).
Essentially EC2 allows you to create a full blown server farm with a few clicks of a mouse, or a couple command lines.
One of the biggest benefits of this is that you can customize the hardware to suit your computing needs and network bandwidth is largely a non-issue.
You may only need a single CPU with a couple GB of memory or you may want a thousand
Typical uses of EC2 are done for any server you want to put into the cloud for some of the reasons I've listed below. The only servers I've encountered trouble with moving to EC2 are latency and bandwidth intensive (xray and 3D imaging in my case).
Essentially EC2 allows you to create a full blown server farm with a few clicks of a mouse, or a couple command lines.
One of the biggest benefits of this is that you can customize the hardware to suit your computing needs and network bandwidth is largely a non-issue.
You may only need a single CPU with a couple GB of memory or you may want a thousand multiple CPU servers with hundreds of gigs of memory. You can take that tiny server and grow it whenever it suits your fancy. You may also have EC2 servers stop at night if you are only using them for development as an example.
It also eliminates a lot of the hassle of updating system images and the operating system if you create a base image. AWS will also allow you to automatically pull Windows updates based on policy as well.
There are AMIs available for desktop use: for Windows it involves having RDP enabled on boot and for Linuxes either VNC or X2Go. They work perfectly well for most desktop applications although you might be pushed to run graphics-intensive games on them. It's a great resource for testing and if you get one set up properly could be useful for occasional use but not all the time as it's not economical.
Apache Spark interfaces quite well with S3, especially if you use AWS/EMR. There are few options to load S3 data into a dataframe ir an RDD.
- Implement an Akka actor to load the content of S3 file
- Dump S3 content into HDFS then use SparkSession to read the file {Json, csv, …}
- Stream S3 content if the size of the files is unknown or very significant