Amazon EC2 Ramps Up Cloud Offerings With Oracle Apps

Dec 21, 2010 | App Modernization, Cloud, Social Media

Amazon has brought a fleet of major PeopleSoft and JD Edward applications to its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service, following a promise in September to do so. The new services are certified by Oracle.

EC2 allows users to rent Amazon’s computers on an hourly basis–either rent bare-bones configurations of an empty OS, or with additional software preinstalled (typically databases or Web servers).

Various renditions of the PeopleSoft customer relations management (CRM) programs are now available via EC2, along with JD Edward Enterprise One enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Also included in the rollout is Oracle’s E-Business Suite.

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Why Executives Are the #1 Cybersecurity Vulnerability in Your Company

Why Executives Are the #1 Cybersecurity Vulnerability in Your Company

What happens when a venture capitalist gets surgically targeted by cybercriminals? He builds a company to make sure it never happens to anyone else. Jeremy shares the SIM-swapping attack that nearly derailed his life, why product security is no substitute for personal security, and how CyberHealth is treating executive cyber risk the same way medicine treats personal health — with measurement, personalized care plans, and ongoing monitoring.

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