Overview of Oracle E-Business Suite on AWS

Publication date: July 6, 2023 (Document history)

Oracle E-Business Suite is a popular suite of integrated business applications for automating enterprise-wide processes like customer relationship management, financial management, and supply chain management. This is the first whitepaper in a series focused on Oracle E-Business Suite on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides an architectural overview for running Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 on AWS.

The whitepaper series is intended for customers and partners who want to learn about the benefits and options for running Oracle E-Business Suite on AWS. Subsequent whitepapers in this series will discuss advanced topics and outline best practices for high availability, security, scalability, performance, migration, disaster recovery, and management of Oracle E-Business Suite systems on AWS.

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Introduction

Almost all large enterprises use enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for managing and optimizing enterprise-wide business processes. Cloud adoption among enterprises is growing rapidly, with many adopting a cloud-first strategy for new projects and migrating their existing systems from on-premises to AWS. ERP systems such as Oracle E-Business Suite are mission critical for most enterprises and figure prominently in considerations for planning an enterprise cloud migration.

This whitepaper provides a brief overview of Oracle E-Business Suite and a reference architecture for deploying Oracle E-Business Suite on AWS. It also discusses the benefits of running Oracle E-Business suite on AWS, and various use cases.