Oracle has now officially certified 11g, Oracle XE, Enterprise Linux and Oracle Fusion for Amazon Web Services' Elastic Computing Cloud (AWS EC2). Information about AWS and EC2 can be found here.

I am going to show you how to get started with Essbase using our Amazon Images. Using the AMI, I am able to have a fully installed EPM machine with Shared Services, Essbase, Administration Services, Integration Services, Provider Services, BI Services and UI Services in 15 mins. Not that you would EVER want to run all of those on the same machine! So lets get started