Cloud Computing with

Amazon and Oracle

Lewis Cunningham
TUSC, Sr Datawarehouse Consultant
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/oracle-guide
http://databasewisdom.com/ 11/15/2008
 Introduction

• Oracle ACE Director

• Author
• Former Cloud Architect for EnterpriseDB
• Currently Data Warehouse Consultant for
TUSC
• Blogger,
An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology
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 My New Book
http://sqlstarter.com

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 Agenda
• What Is Cloud Computing?

• What Does Amazon Offer?

• The Value Proposition

• Where Does Oracle Fit In?

• How Does Amazon Work? 4

 What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is using the

internet to access someone
else's software running on
someone else's hardware in
someone else's data center.

Lewis Cunningham
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 What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is using the

internet to access someone
else's software running on
someone else's hardware in
someone else's data center.

Lewis Cunningham
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 What is Cloud Computing?
Distributed Computing

•Remember SETI@Home?
•Heard of HADOOP?
•Grid Computing
•Distributed computing is spreading a
large task over many machines
•Distributed computing can be cloud
computing but is not cloud computing
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 What is Cloud Computing?
Software as a Service
SaaS
•Gmail & Yahoo Mail
•Google Docs
•Mozy Online Backups
•CRM
Remember Application Service
Providers? The next big thing of
2000 that didn't happen. 8
 What is Cloud Computing?
Platform as a Service
PaaS
•Salesforce.com
•Google App Engine
•Aptana

•Provides a development platform and

hosting
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What is Cloud Computing?
Infrastructure as a Service
IaaS
•Amazon Web Services (AWS)
•EMC Fortress (Storage Cloud)
•HP Adaptive IaaS
•WIPRO, CISCO, IBM, Sun
•Everybody and their brother
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 What is Cloud Computing?
Infrastructure as a Service
IaaS
Key Features

•Virtualization
•Nearly instance scalability
•Everything is a service
•Utility style (pay for what you use)
•Hardware, OS, Software, Storage &
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Electronic Compute Cloud
EC2
•Hardware Virtualization
•Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
•CPU, Memory, Storage
•Linux, Solaris, Windows
•Safety
•Coming Soon - Regions
•Availability Zones
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Electronic Compute Cloud
EC2
•Elastic Internet (IP) Addresses
•Dynamic Addition
•Dynamic Reallocate
•Security
•XEN Hypervisor
•Disk encryption is your call
•Security Groups controls access
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Electronic Compute Cloud
EC2
•Storage is Transient
•S3
•EBS
•SLA
•Amazon warrants 99.95% uptime
•<99.95 gets a 10% discount
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Electronic Compute Cloud
EC2
•Computing Power based on a Compute
Unit
•1 Compute Unit = 1 Circa 2007 1.0-1.2
GHz Opteron or Xeon CPU
•Cost is based on Memory, Storage and
Compute Units

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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Electronic Compute Cloud
EC2
Instance Memory Compute Storage Platform Linux Windows
Type Units CPU/Hour CPU/Hour

Small 1.7GB 1 160GB 32-bit $0.10 $0.125

Large 7.5GB 4 850GB 64-bit $0.40 $0.50

Extra Large 15GB 8 1690GB 64-bit $0.80 $1.00

High CPU, 1.7GB 5 350GB 32-bit $0.20 $0.30

Medium

High CPU, 7GB 20 1690GB 64-bit $0.80 $1.20

Large
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Simple Storage Service
S3
•API Driven Storage
•Get, Put and Delete
•Organized around buckets
•Bucket like a directory
•Bucket can hold objects or more
buckets
•Objects can be up to 5gb each
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Simple Storage Service
S3
•Access
•Fast
•Reliable
•HTTP – REST or SOAP
•Secure
•Access Control Lists (ACL)
•Transfer uses SSL (encryption)
•Can encrypt data at rest 18
 What Does Amazon Offer?
Simple Storage Service
S3
Storage, US per GB Europe per GB
First 50TB/Month $0.150 $0.180
Next 50TB/Month $0.140 $0.170
Next $0.130 $0.160
400TB/Month
Over $0.120 $0.150
500TB/Month

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What Does Amazon Offer?
Simple Storage Service
S3
Data Transfer US per GB Europe per GB

Transfer Into S3 $0.100 $0.100

First 10TB Out of $0.170 $0.170

S3
Next 40TB Out of $0.130 $0.130
S3
Next 100TB Out of $0.110 $0.110
S3
Out over 150TB $0.100 $0.100
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Simple Storage Service
S3

Requests US per Request Europe per Request

Put, Copy, List, $0.01 $0.012

Post
Delete (always $0.00 $0.00
free)
Get and all other $0.01 $0.012
requests

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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Simple Storage Service
S3
•SLA
•99.9% Uptime Guarantee
•If Between 99% and 99.9% Uptime
•10% Credit
•If <99% Uptime
•25% Credit
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Elastic Block Storage
EBS
•Like a USB Drive
•Portable between AMIs
•Persistent
•Dynamically add and remove
•Snapshots
•10 cents per GB per month
•10 cents per 1 million IOs per month
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Simple Queue Service
SQS
•Like Oracle AQ or IBM MQ Series
•API based
•Many interfaces
•Ruby, Java, Python, etc
•8k messages and unlimited queues
•1 cent per 10000 requests
•Data transfer in and out of Amazon costs
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
SimpleDB

•Amazon's first public web service

•Very, very, very simple database
•Not relational
•Key/Value Pairs
•Non-SQL
•Not cheap, $1.50$0.25/GB/Month
•Plus data transfer costs
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 What Does Amazon Offer?
Value Proposition

•Economics
•Dev & Test no upfront capital
•If you buy, buy exactly what you need
•Pay for what you use
•Pay as you go
•Easier
•Faster
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 Where Does Oracle Fit In?

•Oracle AMIs
•Oracle 11g EE, SE & SE1 32-Bit
•Oracle 11g EE, SE & SE1 64-Bit
•Oracle 10g XE
•Oracle Hyperion Essbase
•You can run OBIEE
•You can run Application Server
•Oracle provides licensing and support
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 Where Does Oracle Fit In?

•Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module

•RMAN to S3, 9iR3 & higher
•Can run using OEM
•32-Bit Linux and Windows
•More reliable than tape
•Faster than tape (40-50MB/Sec)
•Takes care of off site storage

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 Where Does Oracle Fit In?

•Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module

•Automatically Encrypts
•Will use Oracle 11g Fast Compressed
Backup (normally requires Advanced
Compression license) at no cost
•No more mounting tapes
•Cheap, Cheap, Cheap

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Where Does Oracle Fit In?
Oracle Cloud Control

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 How does Amazon work?

•Command Line Tools (Yuck)

•3rd Party Add-ons
•ElasticFox (#1)
•Cloud Studio
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•3 Party Vendors
•RightScale
•Elastra

This demo will use ElasticFox 31

Elastic Fox

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Credentials

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SSH Key Pairs

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Security Group

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Elastic IPs

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Elastic Block Storage
Create Volume

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Elastic Block Storage
Unattached Volume

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Current Availability Zones

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Oracle AMIs

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Start an Instance

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Pending Instance

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Instance Details

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Attach an Elastic IP

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Attached Elastic IP

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Elastic Block Storage
Attach Volume

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Elastic Block Storage
Attach Volume Popup

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Elastic Block Storage
Attached Volume

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Instance Startup
Console Output

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Oracle Started

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SSH to Instance

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Oracle License Agreement

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Set Oracle Password

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Ready to Rumble

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Mount an ext2 Filesystem
on EBS Volume
/sbin/mke2fs -j /dev/sdg

echo "/dev/sdg /vol ext3 noatime 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

mkdir /vol

mount /vol

$ df --si

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Verify EBS Volume
df -si

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AWS ApEx

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 Cloud Computing with

Amazon and Oracle

Lewis Cunningham
TUSC, Sr Datawarehouse Consultant
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/oracle-guide
http://databasewisdom.com/ 11/15/2008