Data Guard - primary on-premise / standby at RDS

Question

Hello.
At this moment, i have an Oracle Database on-premisse (licensed; Enterprise Edition) and i´m planning a Disaster Recovery strategy on cloud using Data Guard.
In this scenario, i´m gonna keep the **primay instance on-premise** and the **standby instance on AWS Cloud**.

Considerations:

1- Using EC2 as my standby - I´m gonna have to license standby vCPUs on AWS (BYOL, Enterprise Edition) , according to Oracle policies (https://www.oracle.com/assets/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf). After this, i install Linux and Oracle and configure Data Guard between the two instances, right?

2- Using RDS as my standby- Is it possible ?? I mean, i know i´m gonna have to license my RDS instance as well (BYOL, Enterprise Edidion), but how does this work?
AWS team would help me configuring the standby/RDS?

Answer

1. Using EC2 as my standby - I´m gonna have to license standby vCPUs on AWS (BYOL, Enterprise Edition) , according to Oracle policies (https://www.oracle.com/assets/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf). After this, i install Linux and Oracle and configure Data Guard between the two instances, right?

That is the correct path. You may want consider RDS Custom for Oracle where you can migrate database using Data Guard - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/physical-migration-of-oracle-databases-to-amazon-rds-custom-using-data-guard/

2- Using RDS as my standby- Is it possible ?? I mean, i know i´m gonna have to license my RDS instance as well (BYOL, Enterprise Edidion), but how does this work? AWS team would help me configuring the standby/RDS?

It is possible to run standby database in RDS custom for Oracle - please see the  above blog. 
Please reach out to your AWS account team to help you with your request.

Data Guard - primary on-premise / standby at RDS

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