Re: Oracle EBS in the cloud

Naturally, behind the scenes PaaS is generally comprised of IaaS, and behind the scenes SaaS is generally comprised of PaaS and IaaS except the SaaS vendor is directly accessing and managing them.  One way or another, you "need" IaaS.

What is really important is how we define the verb-with-many-meanings in your original question:  "moved"...

• If "moved" means you rehosted your on-premise EBS to cloud-based servers, managed by your on-premise staff, then you'd be using IaaS only o In this scenario, the move works very much as you've probably done it so many times in the past, except this time you didn't have to set up new servers and storage in your data center first
• If "moved" means that you migrated your on-premise EBS into a cloud-hosted EBS environment, configuring setup through their portals, uploading legacy data through their portals, then you'd be using SaaS directly, while somewhere under that SaaS service are possibly PaaS and definitely IaaS o In this scenario, it would be like you're going to use EBS that is already installed and running somewhere else managed by someone else, and you just have to configure/setup and get your old data transferred into it

Hope this helps!

Thanks!

-Tim