Enterprise Backup Latency Profiles Using Oracle RMAN in Cloud-Scale Deployments

Abstract

Enterprise Oracle deployments on AWS commonly rely on RMAN to support structured backup and
recovery workflows, yet backup latency in cloud-scale environments is influenced by multiple
interacting infrastructure layers. This study examines how EBS storage throughput characteristics,
RMAN channel parallelism, CPU overhead from compression and encryption, and S3 object upload
concurrency jointly determine end-to-end backup performance. The results show that stable and
predictable latency emerges only when compute capacity, disk I/O scheduling, and network transfer
behavior remain aligned. Latency increases significantly when backup operations overlap with peak
transaction workloads or when S3 prefixing and upload parallelism are not tuned to match RMAN
streaming patterns. These findings highlight the need to treat backup configuration as a coordinated
systems-level optimization task rather than focusing on any single parameter in isolation.