Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering for Oracle Exadata workloads, including Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) within AWS.

In the past 14 years, customers had the choice of self-managing Oracle database workloads in the cloud using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or using fully managed Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle. Now, you have an additional option for your workloads that require Oracle RAC or Oracle Exadata for quicker and simpler migrations to the cloud. You also get a single invoice through AWS Marketplace, which counts towards AWS commitments and Oracle license benefits, including Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and discount programs such as Oracle Support Rewards.

With Oracle Database@AWS, you can migrate your Oracle Exadata workloads to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure or Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure within AWS with minimal changes. You can purchase, provision, and manage your Oracle Database@AWS deployments through familiar AWS tools and interfaces such as AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or AWS APIs for applications running on AWS. The AWS APIs call the corresponding Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) APIs necessary to provision and manage the resources.

Since its preview last December, we’ve improved or added features to help run production workloads at general availability:

• Regional expansion – You can now use Oracle Database@AWS in the U.S. East (N. Virginia) and U.S. West (Oregon) Regions today. We are also announcing plans to expand to 20 AWS Regions globally. This broader availability supports the diverse needs of our customers across various geographical areas so more enterprises can benefit from this option. You can choose from different Exadata system sizes to match your workload requirements in your AWS Region.
• Zero-ETL and S3 backups – You can now benefit from zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift for analytics to remove the need to build and manage data pipelines for extract, transform, and load operations. With zero-ETL, you can unify your data on AWS without incurring cross network data transfer costs. We’re providing Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) backups with up to eleven nines of data durability.
• Autonomous VM cluster – You can now provision an Autonomous VM Cluster in addition to an Exadata VM cluster on the Exadata Dedicated Infrastructure. You can run Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure, a fully managed database environment using committed hardware and software resources.

Oracle Database@AWS also integrates with other AWS services such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Lattice for configuring network paths to AWS services such as S3 and Redshift directly, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for authentication and authorization, Amazon EventBridge for monitoring database lifecycle events, AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure automation, Amazon CloudWatch for collecting and monitoring metrics, and AWS CloudTrail for logging API operations.

Getting started with Oracle Database@AWS
Oracle Database@AWS supports two key services: Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure within AWS data centers.

These services physically reside within an Availability Zone in an AWS Region and logically reside in an OCI region, enabling seamless integration with AWS services through high-speed, low-latency connections.

You create an ODB network, a private, isolated network that hosts Oracle Exadata VM Clusters within an Availability Zone. Then, you use ODB peering accessible to EC2 application servers running in a VPC. To learn more, visit How Oracle Database@AWS works in the AWS documentation.

Request a private offer in AWS Marketplace

To begin your journey with Oracle Database@AWS, visit the AWS console or request the AWS Marketplace private offer. Your AWS and Oracle sales team will receive your request, then contact you to find the best option for your workloads, and activate your account.

When you activate and get access to Oracle Database@AWS, you can use the Dashboard to create an ODB network, Exadata infrastructure, and Exadata VM cluster or Autonomous VM cluster, and ODB peering connection.

To learn more, visit the Onboarding to Oracle Database@AWS and AWS Marketplace buyer private offers in the AWS documentation.

Create an ODB network

An ODB network is a private isolated network that hosts OCI infrastructure on AWS. The ODB network maps directly to the network that exists within the OCI child site, thus serving as the means of communication between AWS and OCI.

In the Dashboard, choose Create ODB network, enter a network name, choose the Availability Zone, and specify a CIDR ranges for client connections established by applications and backup connections used for taking automated backups. You can also enter a name to use as a prefix to your domain fixed as oraclevcn.com. For example, if you enter myhost, the fully qualified domain name is myhost.oraclevcn.com.

Optionally, you can configure ODB network access to perform automated backups to Amazon S3 and zero-ETL for near real-time analytics and ML on your Oracle data using Amazon Redshift.

After you create your ODB network, update your VPC route tables of your EC2 application servers with the client connection CIDR in the ODB network. To learn more, visit ODB network, ODB peering, and Configuring VPC route tables for ODB peering in the AWS documentation.

Create Exadata infrastructure

The Oracle Exadata infrastructure is the underlying architecture of your database servers, storage servers, and networking that run your Oracle Exadata databases.

Choose Create Exadata infrastructure, enter a name, and use the default Availability Zone. In the next step, you can choose Exadata.X11M for the Exadata system model. You can also set a default of 2 or up to 32 database servers and 3 or up to 64 storage servers with 80 TB storage capacity per server.

Finally, you can configure system maintenance preferences, such as scheduling, patching mode, and OCI maintenance notification contacts. You can’t modify an infrastructure after you create it from the AWS console. But, you can navigate to the OCI console and modify it.

To delete an Exadata infrastructure, visit Deleting an Oracle Exadata infrastructure in Oracle Database@AWS in the AWS documentation.

Create an Exadata VM cluster or Autonomous VM cluster

You can create VM clusters on Exadata infrastructure and deploy multiple VM clusters with different Oracle Exadata infrastructures in the same ODB network.

Here are two types of VM clusters:

• An Exadata VM cluster is a set of virtual machines that has a complete Oracle database installation that includes all features of Oracle Enterprise Edition.
• An Autonomous VM cluster is a set of fully managed databases that automate key management tasks using AI/ML with no human intervention required.

Choose Create Exadata VM cluster, enter a VM cluster name and a time zone, choose Bring Your Own License (BYOL) or license included for license options. In the next step, you can choose your Exadata infrastructure, grid infrastructure version, and Exadata image version. For database servers, you can choose the CPU core count, memory, and local storage for each VM or accept the defaults.

In the next step, you can configure the connectivity setting by choosing your ODB network and entering a prefix for the VM cluster. You can enter a port number for TCP access to the single client access name (SCAN) listener. The default port is 1521 or you can enter a custom SCAN port in the range 1024–8999. For SSH key pairs, enter the public key portion of one or more key pairs used for SSH access to the VM cluster.

Then, you can choose diagnostics and tags, review your settings, and create a VM cluster. The creation process can take up to 6 hours, depending on the size of the VM cluster.

Create and manage an Oracle database

When the VM cluster is ready, you can create and manage your Oracle Exadata databases in the OCI console. Choose Manage in OCI in the details page of the Exadata VM cluster. You will be redirected to the OCI console.

When you create an Oracle Database in the OCI console, you can select Oracle Database 19c or 23ai. When enabling automatic backups for your provisioned databases, you can use an S3 bucket or OCI Object Storage in the OCI region. To learn more, visit Provision Oracle Exadata Database Service in Oracle Database@AWS in the OCI documentation.

Things to know
Here are a couple of things to know about Oracle Database@AWS:

• Monitoring – You can monitor Oracle Database@AWS using Amazon CloudWatch metrics in the AWS/ODB namespaces for VM clusters, container databases, and pluggable databases. AWS CloudTrail captures all AWS API calls for Oracle Database@AWS as events. Using CloudTrail logs, you can determine the request that was made to Oracle Database@AWS, the IP address from which the request was made, when it was made, and additional details. To learn more, visit Monitoring Oracle Database@AWS.
• Security – You can use IAM to assign permissions that determine who is allowed to manage Oracle Database@AWS resources and SSL/TLS encrypted connections to secure data. You can also use Amazon EventBridge for seamless event-driven database operations—all working together to maintain security standards while enabling efficient cloud operations. To learn more, visit Security in Oracle Database@AWS.
• Compliance – Your compliance responsibility when using Oracle Database@AWS is determined by the sensitivity of your data, your company’s compliance objectives, and applicable laws and regulations. We provides the following compliances with Oracle Database@AWS: SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, HIPAA, C5, CSA STAR Attest, CSA STAR Cert, HDS (France), ISO Series (ISO/IEC 9001, 20000-1, 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701, 22301), PCI DSS, and HITRUST. To learn more, visit Compliance validation for Oracle Database@AWS.
• Support – Your AWS or Oracle sales account team can help you evaluate your current database infrastructure, determine how Oracle Database@AWS can best serve your organization’s requirements, and develop a tailored migration strategy and timeline. You can also get help from AWS Oracle Competency Partners specialized to architect, deploy, and manage Oracle-based workloads running in the AWS Cloud.

Now available and coming soon
Oracle Database@AWS is now available in the U.S. East (N. Virginia) and U.S. West (Oregon) Regions through the AWS Marketplace. Oracle Database@AWS pricing and any AWS Marketplace private offers are set by Oracle. You can see specific details around pricing on Oracle’s pricing page for the offering.

Oracle Database@AWS will expand to 20 more AWS Regions across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific including: US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Zurich), and South America (São Paulo).

You can get started with Oracle Database@AWS with using AWS console. To learn more, visit the Oracle Database@AWS User Guide and OCI documentation and send feedback through your usual AWS Support contacts or OCI support.

— Channy

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Every Monday we tell you about the best releases and blogs that caught our attention last week.

Before continuing with this AWS Weekly Roundup, I’d like to share that last month I moved with my family to San Francisco, California, to start a new role as Developer Advocate/SDE, GenAI.

This excites me because I’ll have the opportunity to connect with new communities in the Bay Area while tackling exciting new challenges. If you’re part of a community focused on building generative AI and agentics applications, or know of one, I’d love to connect. Let’s connect!

Last week’s launches
Here are the launches from last week:

• New Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances are now generally available, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards. These network-optimized instances deliver up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth. This represents the highest bandwidth among EC2 network-optimized instances, with up to 192 vCPUs and 384 GiB memory. They provide 30% higher compute performance than C7gn instances and are ideal for network-intensive workloads like virtual appliances, data analytics, and cluster computing jobs.
• Build the highest resilience apps with multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables – Amazon DynamoDB global tables now supports multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) for applications requiring zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO). This capability ensures applications can read the latest data from any Region during outages, addressing critical needs in payment processing and financial services. MRSC requires three AWS Regions configured as either three full replicas or two replicas plus a witness, providing the highest level of application resilience for mission-critical workloads.
• Amazon Nova Canvas update: Virtual try-on and style options now available – Amazon Nova Canvas introduces virtual try-on capabilities that help you visualize how clothing looks on a person by combining two images, plus eight new pre-trained style options (3D animation, design sketch, vector illustration, graphic novel, etc.) for generating images with improved artistic consistency. Available in three AWS Regions, these features enhance AI-powered image generation capabilities for retailers and content creators seeking realistic product visualizations.
• Amazon Q in Connect now supports 7 languages for proactive recommendations – Amazon Q in Connect, a generative AI-powered assistant for customer service, now provides proactive recommendations in seven languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean. The AI-powered customer service assistant detects customer intent during voice and chat interactions to help agents resolve issues quickly and accurately.
• Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon RDS for MySQL integration with Amazon SageMaker is now available – This integration provides near real-time data availability for analytics. It automatically extracts MySQL data into lakehouses with Apache Iceberg compatibility. You can then access this data seamlessly through various analytics engines and machine learning tools.
• Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in additional AWS Regions – Amazon Aurora DSQL expands to Asia Pacific (Seoul) and now supports multi-Region clusters across Asia Pacific and European regions. This serverless, distributed SQL database offers unlimited scalability, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management with AWS Free Tier access.

Other AWS blog posts

• Optimize RAG in production environments using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon OpenSearch Service – Learn how to optimize Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in production environments using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon OpenSearch Service. This comprehensive guide demonstrates implementing RAG workflows with LangChain, covers OpenSearch optimization strategies, provides setup instructions, and explains benefits of combining these AWS services for scalable, cost-effective generative AI applications.v
• Agentic GenAI App Using Bedrock, MCP servers on EKS – This post shows how to build a scalable AI chat application using Amazon Bedrock, Strands Agent, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The architecture combines agentic workflows with containerized microservices for intelligent, auto-scaling conversations with multiple foundation models.
• Enforce table level access control on data lake tables using AWS Glue 5.0 with AWS Lake Formation – AWS Glue 5.0 introduces Full-Table Access (FTA) control for Apache Spark with AWS Lake Formation, providing table-level security without fine-grained access overhead. This feature supports native Spark SQL/DataFrames for Lake Formation tables. It enables read/write operations on Iceberg and Hive tables with improved performance and lower costs.

Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendars and sign up for these upcoming AWS events:

• AWS re:Invent – Register now to get a head start on choosing your best learning path, booking travel and accommodations, and bringing your team to learn, connect, and have fun. Early-career professionals can apply for the All Builders Welcome Grant program, designed to remove financial barriers and create diverse pathways into cloud technology. Applications are now open and close on July 15, 2025.
• AWS NY Summit – You can gain insights from Swami’s keynote featuring the latest cutting-edge AWS technologies in compute, storage, and generative AI. My News Blog team is also preparing some exciting news for you. If you’re unable to attend in person, you can still participate by registering for the global live stream. Also, save the date for these upcoming Summits in July and August near your city.
• AWS Builders Online Series – If you’re based in one of the Asia Pacific time zones, join and learn fundamental AWS concepts, architectural best practices, and hands-on demonstrations to help you build, migrate, and deploy your workloads on AWS.
• Join AWS Gen AI Lofts – Experience AWS Gen AI Lofts across San Francisco, Berlin, Dubai, Dublin, Bengaluru, Manchester, Paris, Tel Aviv, and additional locations – hands-on workshops, expert guidance, investor networking, and collaborative spaces designed to accelerate your generative AI startup journey.

You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

— Eli

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Have you ever wished you could quickly visualize how a new outfit might look on you before making a purchase? Or how a piece of furniture would look in your living room? Today, we’re excited to introduce a new virtual try-on capability in Amazon Nova Canvas that makes this possible. In addition, we are adding eight new style options for improved style consistency for text-to-image based style prompting. These features expand Nova Canvas AI-powered image generation capabilities making it easier than ever to create realistic product visualizations and stylized images that can enhance the experience of your customers.

Let’s take a quick look at how you can start using these today.

Getting started
The first thing is to make sure that you have access to the Nova Canvas model through the usual means. Head to the Amazon Bedrock console, choose Model access and enable Amazon Nova Canvas for your account making sure that you select the appropriate regions for your workloads. If you already have access and have been using Nova Canvas, you can start using the new features immediately as they’re automatically available to you.

Virtual try-on
The first exciting new feature is virtual try-on. With this, you can upload two pictures and ask Amazon Nova Canvas to put them together with realistic results. These could be pictures of apparel, accessories, home furnishings, and any other products including clothing. For example, you can provide the picture of a human as the source image and the picture of a garment as the reference image, and Amazon Nova Canvas will create a new image with that same person wearing the garment. Let’s try this out!

My starting point is to select two images. I picked one of myself in a pose that I think would work well for a clothes swap and a picture of an AWS-branded hoodie.

Note that Nova Canvas accepts images containing a maximum of 4.1M pixels – the equivalent of 2,048 x 2,048 – so be sure to scale your images to fit these constraints if necessary. Also, if you’d like to run the Python code featured in this article, ensure you have Python 3.9 or later installed as well as the Python packages boto3 and pillow.

To apply the hoodie to my photo, I use the Amazon Bedrock Runtime invoke API. You can find full details on the request and response structures for this API in the Amazon Nova User Guide. The code is straightforward, requiring only a few inference parameters. I use the new taskType of "VIRTUAL_TRY_ON". I then specify the desired settings, including both the source image and reference image, using the virtualTryOnParams object to set a few required parameters. Note that both images must be converted to Base64 strings.

import base64


def load_image_as_base64(image_path): 
   """Helper function for preparing image data."""
   with open(image_path, "rb") as image_file:
      return base64.b64encode(image_file.read()).decode("utf-8")


inference_params = {
   "taskType": "VIRTUAL_TRY_ON",
   "virtualTryOnParams": {
      "sourceImage": load_image_as_base64("person.png"),
      "referenceImage": load_image_as_base64("aws-hoodie.jpg"),
      "maskType": "GARMENT",
      "garmentBasedMask": {"garmentClass": "UPPER_BODY"}
   }
}

Nova Canvas uses masking to manipulate images. This is a technique that allows AI image generation to focus on specific areas or regions of an image while preserving others, similar to using painter’s tape to protect areas you don’t want to paint.

You can use three different masking modes, which you can choose by setting maskType to the correct value. In this case, I’m using "GARMENT", which requires me to specify which part of the body I want to be masked. I’m using "UPPER_BODY" , but you can use others such as "LOWER_BODY", "FULL_BODY", or "FOOTWEAR" if you want to specifically target the feet. Refer to the documentation for a full list of options.

I then call the invoke API, passing in these inference arguments and saving the generated image to disk.

# Note: The inference_params variable from above is referenced below.

import base64
import io
import json

import boto3
from PIL import Image

# Create the Bedrock Runtime client.
bedrock = boto3.client(service_name="bedrock-runtime", region_name="us-east-1")

# Prepare the invocation payload.
body_json = json.dumps(inference_params, indent=2)

# Invoke Nova Canvas.
response = bedrock.invoke_model(
   body=body_json,
   modelId="amazon.nova-canvas-v1:0",
   accept="application/json",
   contentType="application/json"
)

# Extract the images from the response.
response_body_json = json.loads(response.get("body").read())
images = response_body_json.get("images", [])

# Check for errors.
if response_body_json.get("error"):
   print(response_body_json.get("error"))

# Decode each image from Base64 and save as a PNG file.
for index, image_base64 in enumerate(images):
   image_bytes = base64.b64decode(image_base64)
   image_buffer = io.BytesIO(image_bytes)
   image = Image.open(image_buffer)
   image.save(f"image_{index}.png")

I get a very exciting result!

And just like that, I’m the proud wearer of an AWS-branded hoodie!

In addition to the "GARMENT" mask type, you can also use the "PROMPT" or "IMAGE" masks. With "PROMPT", you also provide the source and reference images, however, you provide a natural language prompt to specify which part of the source image you’d like to be replaced. This is similar to how the "INPAINTING" and "OUTPAINTING" tasks work in Nova Canvas. If you want to use your own image mask, then you choose the "IMAGE" mask type and provide a black-and-white image to be used as mask, where black indicates the pixels that you want to be replaced on the source image, and white the ones you want to preserve.

This capability is specifically useful for retailers. They can use it to help their customers make better purchasing decisions by seeing how products look before buying.

Using style options
I’ve always wondered what I would look like as an anime superhero. Previously, I could use Nova Canvas to manipulate an image of myself, but I would have to rely on my good prompt engineering skills to get it right. Now, Nova Canvas comes with pre-trained styles that you can apply to your images to get high-quality results that follow the artistic style of your choice. There are eight available styles including 3D animated family film, design sketch, flat vector illustration, graphic novel, maximalism, midcentury retro, photorealism, and soft digital painting.

Applying them is as straightforward as passing in an extra parameter to the Nova Canvas API. Let’s try an example.

I want to generate an image of an AWS superhero using the 3D animated family film style. To do this, I specify a taskType of "TEXT_IMAGE" and a textToImageParams object containing two parameters: text and style. The text parameter contains the prompt describing the image I want to create which in this case is “a superhero in a yellow outfit with a big AWS logo and a cape.” The style parameter specifies one of the predefined style values. I’m using "3D_ANIMATED_FAMILY_FILM" here, but you can find the full list in the Nova Canvas User Guide.

inference_params = {
   "taskType": "TEXT_IMAGE",
   "textToImageParams": {
      "text": "a superhero in a yellow outfit with a big AWS logo and a cape.",
      "style": "3D_ANIMATED_FAMILY_FILM",
   },
   "imageGenerationConfig": {
      "width": 1280,
      "height": 720,
      "seed": 321
   }
}

Then, I call the invoke API just as I did in the previous example. (The code has been omitted here for brevity.) And the result? Well, I’ll let you judge for yourself, but I have to say I’m quite pleased with the AWS superhero wearing my favorite color following the 3D animated family film style exactly as I envisioned.

What’s really cool is that I can keep my code and prompt exactly the same and only change the value of the style attribute to generate an image in a completely different style. Let’s try this out. I set style to PHOTOREALISM.

inference_params = { 
   "taskType": "TEXT_IMAGE", 
   "textToImageParams": { 
      "text": "a superhero in a yellow outfit with a big AWS logo and a cape.",
      "style": "PHOTOREALISM",
   },
   "imageGenerationConfig": {
      "width": 1280,
      "height": 720,
      "seed": 7
   }
}

And the result is impressive! A photorealistic superhero exactly as I described, which is a far departure from the previous generated cartoon and all it took was changing one line of code.

Things to know
Availability – Virtual try-on and style options are available in Amazon Nova Canvas in the US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Ireland). Current users of Amazon Nova Canvas can immediately use these capabilities without migrating to a new model.

Pricing – See the Amazon Bedrock pricing page for details on costs.

For a preview of virtual try-on of garments, you can visit nova.amazon.com where you can upload an image of a person and a garment to visualize different clothing combinations.

If you are ready to get started, please check out the Nova Canvas User Guide or visit the AWS Console.

Matheus Guimaraes | @codingmatheus

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