Oracle ERP Now Available on the Amazon Cloud

Oracle is planning to take ERP to the cloud with help from Amazon. According to the online retail giant, ERP and CRM applications from Oracle will soon be available on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.

Amazon shared in a blog post last week that Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and E-Business Suite applications and databases will all be available on EC2 and offered as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). With such players dominating the Amazon cloud space, expect to see additional offerings in the near future.

The company also said that it plans to add Oracle Siebel CRM at some point, although it is still not clear if Oracle’s business intelligence software, known as BI 11g, will be included in the company’s list of offerings. Until that decision is made, ERP solutions are readily available within this cloud offering.

All of the applications, whether ERP or CRM, within EC2 can be customized for use in unique environments, or leveraged to use as is. The application AMIs are all based on Oracle Linux and run on 64-bit high-memory instances on top of Oracle VM.

Oracle’s standard partitioned processor licensing models do apply as Oracle VM support on Amazon EC2 was implemented with hard partitioning. Oracle is offering use of existing ERP licenses at no additional cost. If new licenses are needed, they can easily be acquired from Oracle.

Oracle supports all applications as they are all Oracle certified. Customers who already have active Oracle support and Amazon Premium Support can leverage their relationship with either Oracle or Amazon to gain support for their cloud-based ERP solution.