Amazon Web Services improved its Relational Database as a Service (RDS) for Oracle. It now supports APEX (finally, see the lengthy APEX discussion here), the OracleXMLDB and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

For more information:

• Download my whitepaper about Cloud Databases and Oracle, which is an excerpt of my Oracle Cloud Book.
• Make sure you understood that you can have EBS volumes with provisioned IOPs now – something really handy for your database!
• Check out RDS with Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) in screen cast: