Oracle Goes to Amazon

The hitch is that only the feature-shy two-socket Oracle Standard Edition One can be had from Amazon in accordance with what it calls the "License Included" model. Oracle's Standard Edition and sacred Enterprise Edition are strictly "Bring Your Own License" and mean either having a license already or getting one direct from Oracle.

As usual, prices vary by computing power and memory. And as usual there are the additional storage and data transfer fees.

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