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Oracle’s OSB Cloud Module allows you to backup to S3.  By default OSB Cloud Module will create buckets using generated names from your EC2 login. For example if your login is myaccount@gmail.com, your default buckets would be: oracle-data-myaccount-1 and oracle-log-myaccount-1.  If you already have buckets setup that you want to use and need to lock down permissions using EC2′s IAM feature, then you’ll need to do some extra work to change the bucket OSB uses and allow access.
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As physical infrastructure has changed over the years, management and configuration mechanisms have evolved as well.  In the old days, large machines were managed by hand in many cases, by expert administrators who understood their configuration intimately.  Then, as smaller machines were integrated into the enterprise, management-by-hand became difficult.  Build automation became paramount.  Technologies like RIS and Jumpstart became our best friends.  Rdist allowed us to manage and update host configurations to a limited extent.

Then when commodity hardware became stable enough, and more importantly cheap enough to buy redundant systems, we added amazing community based projects like CFEngine, Puppet, and Chef to our toolboxes.  Imaging models became popular as well, and every host in the enterprise gained the possibility of being consistent, and if not, becoming so within 15 minutes with a rebuild. Read the full article…