1. How Oracle (yes Oracle!) helped Amazon suck the cost out of database backup

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    How Oracle (yes Oracle!) helped Amazon suck the cost out of database backup

    Amazon.com’s massive retail operations require a ton of database power and related database backup. All that tape backup along with the robots and specialized software required to run them cost significant cash. The giant retailer uses Oracle databases and Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) to automate backup using robotic tape library systems. The cost of all that back-up paraphernalia was non-trivial so when Oracle brought out Oracle 10g with updates that let RMAN back up directly to Amazon’s S3 storage service, Amazon saw an opportunity to cut out the backup middleman, er robot.

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