FlashGrid offers a complete solution for Oracle RAC on AWS that provides customers a non-disruptive way to lift and shift RAC workloads from physical or virtual datacenter implementations to EC2. A proven database infrastructure architecture with no single point of failure is implemented as a secure virtual appliance that is deployed by customer in their AWS account. Combined with FlashGrid pre-sales assistance for sizing and provisioning, and 24/7 database infrastructure support for the lifetime of the systems, the solution provides a solid path for transition to the AWS cloud for mission-critical enterprise databases and applications that rely on these databases, without the need of re-engineering.

As the first step on the road to AWS, FlashGrid offers a set of professional services to assess customer's present (on premises) database infrastructure, and propose an architecture that will deliver equivalent availability and performance when running Oracle RAC on AWS EC2 infrastructure.

The free services include:

• Assessment of customer's current storage, compute, and network resources used for on-premises Oracle RAC cluster(s)
• Analysis of Oracle AWR reports
• Proposing an architecture for running Oracle RAC on AWS EC2
• Sizing to match the performance requirements
• Proposing solutions for high-performance and/or extra large database implementations, e.g. for systems running on Exadata
• Scaling suggestions for future growth
• Assisting with proof-of-concept deployments