We walk through the end-to-end process of provisioning an Oracle Compute Cloud instance from scratch - adding storage, defining firewall rules, creating a private key, and connecting through VNC. Then we do the same thing with Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2. Speed of provisioning is one of the benefits of the cloud, so let’s embark on this live walkthrough together, see how easy it is to get up and running, and compare the IaaS offering from Oracle and Amazon.

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Oracle Compute Cloud Service vs. Amazon Web Services EC2
A Hands-On Review
Wednesday, April 05, 2017
9:45 - 10:45am
Session 422
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Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Cloud Concepts
3. Live Provisioning Demo: Oracle Compute Cloud Service
4. Live Provisioning Demo: Amazon Web Services EC2
5. Summary

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About Me
▪ Ahmed Aboulnaga @Ahmed_Aboulnaga
▪ 18+ years Oracle experience
▪ Oracle ACE, OCE, OCA
▪ Author, Blogger, Presenter, Tweeter

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About Raastech
▪ Small systems integrator founded in 2009
▪ Headquartered in the Washington DC area
▪ Specializes in Oracle Fusion Middleware
▪ Oracle Gold Partner
▪ Oracle SOA Specialized

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Cloud Concepts: IaaS
▪ IaaS = Infrastructure as a Service = Server + Storage + Network
▪ No need to invest in hardware up front
▪ Develop and deploy applications faster
▪ Scale up or down as needed

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Cloud Concepts: History of Virtualization
▪ Provisioning a single physical server took months
▪ Physical resources were often underutilized
▪ Virtualization helped:
▪ Reduce provisioning time
▪ Maximize physical resources
▪ Introduce concepts such as cloning and snapshots

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Cloud Concepts
▪ Cloud != Virtualization

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Why Cloud is not Virtualization
▪ On demand resources
▪ Rapidly provisioned (i.e., self-service provisioning)
▪ Minimal management
▪ Elastic (i.e., workload management)
▪ Measured service (i.e., metering and chargeback)

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Oracle Compute Cloud Service
▪ Unoriginal name
▪ Can be metered or non-metered
▪ Can use VirtualBox images as templates

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Amazon Web Services EC2
▪ EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud (get it?)
▪ Scalable computing capacity in the AWS cloud

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Oracle Cloud

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Amazon Web Services

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Recap
▪ Live demo walked through:
▪ Creating an instance
▪ Creating private key for SSH access
▪ Configuring firewall
▪ Installing required packages
▪ Configuring host
▪ Installing VNC Server

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Summary
▪ Why we moved from AWS EC2 to Oracle Compute Cloud:
▪ Relatively easy migration (simple backup & restore)
▪ One app needed to be relinked due to library version difference
▪ Yes, it was 25% more expensive, but:
▪ Comparable CPU count
▪ Non-metered
▪ 2x memory
▪ 20x storage
▪ Oracle Cloud Support
▪ Dedicated Cloud Success Manager

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Summary
▪ Email from a colleague

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Gotchas
▪ Some things that were new to me in Oracle Compute Cloud:
▪ Firewall rule groupings
▪ The concept of orchestrations
▪ Persistent boot disks and its impact on snapshots
▪ Support for Solaris

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Blog References
▪ Provisioning an Oracle Compute Cloud instance from scratch
http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/tutorial-provisioning-oracle-compute.html
▪ Mounting a storage volume on an Oracle Compute Cloud Linux instance
http://blog.raastech.com/2016/09/mounting-storage-volume-on-oracle.html
▪ Default 'root' passwords for Oracle Compute Cloud instances
http://blog.raastech.com/2016/10/default-root-passwords-for-oracle-cloud.html
▪ Creating an Oracle Database Cloud Service in under 40 minutes
http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/creating-oracle-database-cloud-service.html
▪ Configure Oracle SQL Developer to connect to an Oracle Database Cloud Service instance
http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/configure-oracle-sql-developer-to.html
▪ Creating an Oracle Storage Cloud Service
http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/creating-oracle-storage-cloud-service.html
▪ Cannot access the Oracle Database Cloud Service consoles (e.g., DBaaS Monitor)
http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/cannot-access-oracle-database-cloud.html
▪ Unable to request an Authentication Token when calling the Oracle Storage Cloud Service REST API
http://blog.raastech.com/2016/06/unable-to-request-authentication-token.html
▪ You must first create an Oracle Database Cloud Service with a backup destination before creating a SOA Cloud Service instance
http://blog.raastech.com/2016/07/you-must-first-create-oracle-database.html
▪ Provisioning an AWS instance for general Oracle software
http://blog.raastech.com/2015/07/provisioning-aws-instance-for-general.html

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Contact Information
▪ Ahmed Aboulnaga
▪ Technical Director
▪ @Ahmed_Aboulnaga
▪ ahmed.aboulnaga@raastech.com

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Q&A