GoldenGate Cloud Service is part of Oracle’s PaaS portfolio. From technical perspective it is just standard GoldenGate deployed on VM in Oracle Cloud. So same already proven architecture works in Cloud.

GGCS can be used for different cases from zero downtime migration to real-time DWH feeding. More cases like BigData and data pipeline feeding are on the way.

So what do you need to use GoldenGate Cloud Service. You should have:

• database instance in cloud (DBaaS or ExadataCS)
• subscription for GoldenGate Cloud Service.
• storage cloud service (it used for backup)

GGCS is available as Non Metered service now. If you use GGCS Non-Metered Service then you should pay money even if your GoldenGate instance is down.

Soon GGCS will be available as a Metered Service. So it will possible to pay on per hour basis. This capability will open new cases like Dev/Test Cloud Environment Synchronization. Just imagine you have database in cloud for testing purposes. You should periodically (every week/month) synchronize it with production database. So you don’t need GGCS running for all time but run it for 2 hours every Sunday to apply captured data. This approach can save a lot of money.

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