Protected: Expanding Section: The Background of the Oracle DB Leakage to AWS

Oracle has been losing some of the hosting of its database market to AWS. This hosting has moved primarily from on-premises to the AWS’s cloud. AWS offers several different services for hosting the Oracle database.

The Oracle Database on AWS RDS

One is RDS, which is a managed database service that allows multiple customers to be held in the same database while providing full security encryption. This is appealing for customers with less differentiated requirements and because of its inherent efficiency is low in cost.

The Oracle Database on AWS EC2

The second service is placing the database on EC2 or AWS’s compute cloud. This is for customers that desire more flexibility than RDS has to offer.

This video just provides background information on how AWS allows Oracle customers to move to managed databases. 

Oracle does not want customers to migrate their databases to AWS for the following reasons.

Problems for Oracle with AWS Migration

What are the issues of migrating from Oracle to AWS.
The IssueIssue Description
Loss of Power in the AccountMigration to AWS can mean the loss of those that administer the database (called database administrators or DBA's). Oracle relies upon the in house DBAs to continue to promote the superiority of the Oracle Database. 
Opening Up Open Source AlternativesA migration to AWS, can mean another migration from Oracle to an open source database alternative. AWS RDS offers 3 different open source options (MariaDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) This can again mean the loss of database license revenue.
Database Licensing ProcessorsAWS allows for more efficient management of processors, and Oracle's database is priced per processor. (this means a loss of database license revenues) 
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Much to Oracle’s consternation, AWS has been quite successful in appealing to Oracle customers to migrated Oracle databases to AWS. And we believe they will continue to be successful as the value and reduction in Oracle cost is quite high.

This leads directly to a topic we will address in several sections, which is the Oracle Autonomous Database.

Category: Oracle