Running Oracle on AWS sounds simple — until you realize that AWS configurations can violate Oracle licensing policies in ways that turn a $17,500 license into a $380,000 bill. Before you deploy, understand the risks most organizations discover too late.
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Licensing Oracle on AWS? A Word of Caution
Running Oracle on AWS sounds simple — until you realize that AWS configurations can violate Oracle licensing policies in ways that turn a $17,500 license into a $380,000 bill. Before you deploy, understand the risks most organizations discover too late.
Dean Bolton
Chief Architect, LicenseFortress
March 2019
4 min read
The bottom line
Running Oracle on AWS sounds simple — until you realize that AWS configurations can violate Oracle licensing policies in ways that turn a $17,500 license into a $380,000 bill. Before you deploy, understand the risks most organizations discover too late.
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Dean Bolton
Chief Architect, LicenseFortress
Dean leads LicenseFortress' technical licensing practice, covering Oracle, VMware, virtualization and infrastructure licensing rules.
