AWS Storage Services

AWS Storage services is broken down into:

Simple Storage Service (S3) is designed to store and access any type of data over the internet.

Amazon Glacier  is the cheapest service and is used for long term data archiving.

Elastic Block Storage (EBS) is a highly available (low latency) block storage.

Elastic File Storage (EFS) is a network attached file system.

Storage Gateway enables hybrid storage between On Premise and AWS Cloud. It caches the most frequently used data in On Premise and less frequently used data in AWS Cloud.

Snowball is a hardware device used to migrate data. e.g Copy data from On Premise to Cloud.

EBS 11.5.10.2 applet not working in Win 7

If you had EBS 11.5.10.2 with JDK 1.4_02 and if you were using Win XP, it may not work anymore after support for Win XP has been removed.

To make it work, there are two solutions:

• Run EBS 11.5.10.2 in XP mode on Win 7 (uses Jinitiator)
• Upgrade JDK to latest version

Option 1. Run EBS 11.5.10.2 in XP mode on Win 7 (uses Jinitiator)

Download and install XP Mode on Win 7 using the following URL:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/install-and-use-windows-xp-mode-in-windows-7
Follow all the steps as mentioned.

• Once installed, open the XP mode.
• Connect to SSL VPN in the new VM (XP mode)
• Connect to http://<domain_url>:<port#> and login
• Go to some responsibility
• Click on some link that opens an applet
• It will take a while and ask you to install Jinitiator (oajinit.exe)
• Once installed, applet will start working.

Option 2. Upgrade JDK to latest version

Follow the following three articles.

• Using J2SE Version 6 with Oracle E-Business Suite 11i (Doc ID 401561.1)
• Enhanced Jar Signing for Oracle E-Business Suite (Doc ID 1591073.1)
• Recommended Browsers for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i (Doc ID 285218.1)