Why is AWS a Bigger Threat to Oracle than SAP and Microsoft?
… managed Oracle database instances for as low as $0.07 per hour. Even better, AWS promised to significantly lower the prices even more as they roll out the next wave of automation capabilities to their infrastructure. Oracle, on the other hand, is no longer sitting still.
On October 2017, Oracle announced a new line of autonomous products including a fully autonomous database. The new cloud service promised to cost 50% less than AWS and offer 99.995% availability!
That’s 2m:11.5s downtime per month. How great is that? A better product at lower prices.
Let the games begin!