Apex in the Amazon Cloud

Hello Oracle Community,

I'm currently researching Oracle Apex on an Amazon EC2 instance, and at the moment good content out there seems a little thin - or quickly dated.

Either that or my google kung fu has weakened :-)

The basics I have covered -

• Justin Lokitz has a comprehensive article on setting up Oracle on the cloud;
• There is also a good Oracle white paper explaining the setup process;
• Bill Hodak from Oracle has defined a perfect machine image;
• This is probably the best dialogue I've seen on sending e-mails. I have seen others, but exact solution is  unclear and possibly out-of-date;
• And Kris has mentioned SEO considerations in regard to Apex generated URLs. There are other decent discussions, but one pertains to EPG setups, and I'm sure things have come along a little more since 3.1.2

My particular interests are -

1. Sending e-mails from EC2 using UTL_MAIL, preferably with a designated domain (not Amazon)
2. Prettying up the Apex URLs, and/or other issues to consider with page ranking

No doubt once I start getting my hands dirty, some of theses answers may become more apparent, or I'll have a better idea of how/where to look - but for now if anyone has any notes, tips, experiences, URL suggestions, answer to the life, universe and everything - I would appreciate it!

ScottWe

ps - if you just wanted pictures of pretty clouds, try these - simply stunning.

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Update: I've also created an OTN post on this, stay tuned