In this article I will describe the installation of Oracle APEX Environment in Amazon Web Service (AWS).
The whole environment includes following components:
- AWS RDS: Oracle Database with activated APEX
- VM (EC2 Container) with:
- Oracle Rest Data Service (ORDS)
- Apache Tomcat for the Hosting of the ORDS
- Nginx: http Server
The major challenge is to install APEX without SYSDBA privilege, because the Oracle Database in the RDS is Vendor-Managed. Users cannot access the OS and do not have the database DBA role.
Blue Print of the APEX environment in the AWS:

In my next Posts I will cover the following topics:
Part 2: Create the APEX Database in Amazon Relation Data Service (RDS)
Part 3: Configure APEX with Oracle Rest Data Service (ORDS) in the new EC2 Container
Part 4: Configuration APEX with ORDS, Apache-Tomcat und Nginx