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# Architecting for security and performance
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 Whether you choose to run Oracle Database on Amazon RDS or Amazon EC2, optimizing every component of the infrastructure will enhance security, performance, and reliability. In the following sections, the best practices for optimizing network configuration, instance type, and database storage in an Oracle Database implementation on AWS are discussed. 

**Topics**
+ [Network configuration](network-configuration.md)
+ [Amazon EC2 instance type](amazon-ec2-instance-type.md)
+ [Database storage](database-storage.md)