Multi-AZ | John Nessime

Oracle on EC2 vs RDS: The same BYOL licensing rules, but different operational responsibilities, administrative privileges, and infrastructure constraints.

Oracle on EC2 vs RDS: Why the License Math Doesn’t Save You

Post category:Cloud Computing Databases Technical Guides

Oracle counts a vCPU the same way on EC2 and on RDS, so the platform choice never saves you licensing money. What it does change is sysdba access, block size and file limits, who owns backups and failover, and the Multi-AZ setting that quietly doubles your BYOL count.

Choosing an AWS Region for a MENA Client: Latency Is the Last Question

Post category:Cloud Computing Compliance

Latency is the constraint everyone reaches for first when choosing an AWS region for MENA clients, and it is almost always the one that matters least. Residency law eliminates candidates, service availability eliminates more, and latency only picks between whatever survives. A practical walkthrough of that filter, with the commands to check service availability and region opt-in status programmatically, the guardrail that keeps the decision true, and the things that break in the first few weeks after you commit.