“Multi-AZ deployments of Amazon RDS provide built-in synchronous replication and automatic fail-over, so we can run our mission critical workloads with high availability. This puts us in a fantastic position to move our clients away from on-premises hardware and onto our cloud-based service using AWS,” Kierce declares. Shine estimates that running its applications on AWS and Amazon RDS for Oracle Database will result in a 50 percent cost savings over a 3-year period compared to its prior architecture.

After moving its NBV application to AWS, Shine conducted a speed test on one of its client’s primary processes. Previously, processing time with an on-premises infrastructure was about 96 hours. Test results revealed that by using AWS, Shine was able to reduce processing time for this task from 96 hours to 24 hours. “The biggest contributor to that speed is Amazon RDS for Oracle Database and in particular, Amazon RDS Provisioned IOPS. The increased throughput makes it very simple to deploy I/O heavy workloads on Amazon RDS,” Kierce says. With the success of the NBV migration, the Shine team plans to use the same architecture to port its NBM applications to AWS, which they plan to have ready for customers in early 2013.

“I’ve been an Oracle database administrator since Oracle 7,” Kierce says. “I consider Amazon RDS for Oracle Database a technological miracle. I am incredibly thankful for the expertise of AWS. We see a brave new world for our ten-year-old application on the AWS Cloud. Thank you, AWS, for helping to enable our innovation.”