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Oracle Database Clients

Overview

This page is the entry point for the SecureAnyCloud Hardened AMIs for Oracle Database Client 12c to 26ai & Instant Client listing on AWS Marketplace. The listing is a single product that offers several products and releases as separate software versions.

Subscribe once, then choose the version you want from the Software version list at launch. Open that version's guide below for the full setup and connection walk-through.

What you get with every version:

  • An image that SecureAnyCloud builds on a fully patched Oracle Linux base, with the latest security updates applied at build time.
  • The Oracle client installed from Oracle's base release media.
  • Key-only SSH and no default password.
  • No shared secrets between instances. Host keys and machine identity are generated on each instance's first boot, and build residue is removed before capture.

Pricing is metered hourly per EC2 instance type and is the same for every version in this listing. The recommended instance type is m5.large.

How to pick a version

  • Open the listing on AWS Marketplace, choose View purchase options, then choose Subscribe. One subscription covers every product and release in the listing, and the free trial starts with it.
  • When the subscription is active, choose Launch your software.
  • Choose One-click launch from AWS Marketplace, or Launch from EC2 Console for full control. In Version, choose the product and release you want. Each version is a separate software version, named <product> <release> on <operating system> - <date>, for example Oracle Database Client 12c Release 1 on OL 8 - YYYY-MM-DD. The date is when that version was added to the listing.
  • Choose your Region and an instance type (m5.large is recommended), your EC2 key pair, and a security group that opens the ports in the product's guide. Then choose Launch.
  • After launch, open the product's guide below for first login.

You can run several products from the same subscription. Launch one instance per product, each from its own software version.

Versions in this listing, newest release first:

  • Oracle Database Client: 26ai on Oracle Linux 9, 21c on Oracle Linux 8, 19c on Oracle Linux 8, 18c on Oracle Linux 8, 12c Release 2 on OL 8, 12c Release 1 on OL 8
  • Oracle Instant Client: 23.26 on Oracle Linux 9

Security model

Every version in this listing follows the same model:

  • No default login and no credentials shipped. The image contains the database client only: no database, no listener and no credentials file. You sign in over SSH with your EC2 key pair. Password login is disabled, root cannot log in over SSH, and no account has a password.
  • Nothing shared between instances. SSH host keys and the machine ID are generated on each instance's first boot.
  • Only SSH (22). Nothing else listens. firewalld allows inbound SSH only, SELinux is enforcing, and instance metadata requires IMDSv2.
  • Fully patched, base vendor media. The operating system is fully patched when the image is built. The client is installed from the vendor's base release media with no patch applied, so apply vendor patches with your own support entitlement.
  • Connecting to a remote database. Use TLS (TCPS) with a wallet, or Oracle native network encryption, for every connection that leaves your VPC. Keep each database listener reachable from your own networks only, never from 0.0.0.0/0.

Choose your product

Each software version has its own guide. Pick the product and version that match the databases you connect to:

  • Oracle Database Client 12c Release 1 on OL 8: Oracle Linux 8
  • Oracle Database Client 12c Release 2 on OL 8: Oracle Linux 8
  • Oracle Database Client 18c on Oracle Linux 8: Oracle Linux 8
  • Oracle Database Client 19c on Oracle Linux 8: Oracle Linux 8
  • Oracle Database Client 21c on Oracle Linux 8: Oracle Linux 8
  • Oracle Database Client 26ai on Oracle Linux 9: Oracle Linux 9
  • Oracle Instant Client 23.26 on Oracle Linux 9: Oracle Linux 9

How to tell which version you launched

The version you chose appears on the instance's launch record in the EC2 console (AMI name and description) and in your AWS Marketplace subscription.

On the instance itself, cat /usr/share/doc/sac/oracle-*/README.txt names the client release, its Oracle home and its guide. sqlplus -V prints the exact release. The image creates no credentials file. Open the matching guide above for the rest of the walk-through.

Support

SecureAnyCloud provides 24/7 support for every version in this listing via the AWS Marketplace support channel. Raise a ticket through the Marketplace console or email sales@secureanycloud.com.

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