SAP on AWS · AnyDB on AWS: SQL Server, Oracle, ASE, MaxDB, Db2

An architect wants Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) across EC2 instances for scale-out high availability (HA) on SAP, per SAP Note 2358420. Why does that plan fail, and what Oracle configurations ARE supported on EC2?

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