An introduction to Cloud Computing and Oracle Middleware on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace Cloud and the RightScale Cloud Management Platform. Introduction to Cloud Computing: Why the existing definitions aren't good enough. Amazon Web Services (Using EC2 Instances, Creating your own customized Images, File Systems, Amazon Linux, Command-Line and Tools) Rackspace Cloud (Rackspace Cloud Server and Rackspace Cloud Files for Windows and Linux, REST API, Limelight Content Distribution Network) SOA and Oracle Fusion Middleware (WebLogic Server, Service Bus, Oracle BPM / WebCenter, Oracle Service Registry, Oracle Enterprise Repository) Designing for the Cloud (Design Principles, IaaS Platform choice, AMI design, Oracle Architecture Blueprint) Cloud Databases (Oracle Database AMIs, AWS SimpleDB, AWS Relational Database Service (RDS), WebLogic with RDS, Multi Data Sources) Cloud Management (Distributed Domains, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Licensing, RightScale Cloud Management) Availability (Clustering, Distributed JMS, Whole-server Migration, AWS Simple Queue Service, Overload Protection) Scalability (AWS Auto Scaling, HAProxy, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, CDNs and AWS CloudFront) Monitoring (AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS), AWS CloudWatch) Oracle VM (Oracle VM Templates on EC2, WebLogic Virtual Edition, Virtual Box) This book contains all the new and cool AWS stuff: Oracle VM Templates on EC2, Free Micro Instances, Free Cloud Watch Monitoring, Tags, S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage, EBS-backed AMIs, Database Read Replicas and Multi-Availability Zone Instances, Simple Notification Service (SNS), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Auto Scaling, the brand new Amazon Linux and much, much more!