Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers M8i and R8i instances with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License Included (LI). M8i and R8i instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The new instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances.

With RDS for Oracle SE2 LI, customers don’t have to separately purchase Oracle license and support. Amazon RDS for Oracle SE2 LI offers subscription based pay-per-use pricing inclusive of software license, support, compute resources, and a managed database service. To use RDS for Oracle SE2 LI, customers can create database instances from the AWS Management Console or using the AWS CLI. and specify the LI option. For more details about how you can lower cost and simplify operations of running Oracle databases, refer to the AWS blog Rethink Oracle Standard Edition Two on Amazon RDS for Oracle.

Configuration details for available instance types can be found on the Amazon RDS for Oracle Instance Types page. Review the AWS blog Rethink Oracle Standard Edition Two on Amazon RDS for Oracle to explore how you can lower cost and simplify operations by using Amazon RDS Oracle SE2 License Included instances for your Oracle databases.

For pricing and AWS Region availability, see Amazon RDS for Oracle Pricing.