Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure over Amazon Web Services

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is built for enterprises seeking higher performance, lower costs, and easier cloud migration for their applications. Customers choose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure over AWS for several reasons: First, they can consume cloud services in the public cloud or within their own data center with Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. Second, they can migrate and run any workload as is on Oracle Cloud, including Oracle databases and applications, VMware, or bare metal servers. Third, customers can easily implement security controls and automation to prevent misconfiguration errors and implement security best practices. Fourth, they have lower risks with Oracle’s end-to-end SLAs covering performance, availability, and manageability of services. Finally, their workloads achieve better performance at a significantly lower cost with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure than AWS. Take a look at what makes Oracle Cloud Infrastructure a better cloud platform than AWS.

Enterprises choose on-premises infrastructure to help meet their regulatory and data sovereignty requirements, to minimize latency, and to ensure local control of resources. They want to leverage the attributes and benefits of the public cloud while combining them with the isolation and security of on-premises infrastructure.

Oracle gives customers the choice to consume their cloud services in the public cloud or within their own data center with Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. Unlike AWS Outposts, Oracle brings its complete portfolio of public cloud services into your data center so you can reduce costs, upgrade legacy applications with modern services, and help address your most demanding data sovereignty and latency requirements. Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer gives customers the best of both worlds.

Customers are increasingly migrating business-critical enterprise applications and databases to the cloud to achieve operation efficiency and improve application performance and availability. Customers want to execute these migrations without changing familiar software or IT processes. Unlike AWS, Oracle makes migrations easier.

Oracle Cloud provides the best deployment options, highest performance, best availability, and lowest costs for Oracle databases and workloads. In the case of enterprise apps such as ERP, HCM, etc., Oracle offers customers the ability to ramp-up to a SaaS model, something not possible with AWS as AWS does not offer any enterprise SaaS application.

During the POC, OceanX observed meaningful performance differences building a Cognos cube on an Exadata platform versus on EC2. In AWS, an 11 million row cube took 40 minutes while a comparable 13 million row cube was built on Exadata in 8 minutes. This allowed OceanX to save time and money by eliminating the need to run each database on separate AWS instances.

On-premises, physical servers enable customers to run workloads directly on bare metal server hardware when performance, latency, or security require it, and they want the same options in the public cloud. Most enterprises also run VMware vSphere in their data centers. They want to migrate the workloads running on these physical servers and VMware environments without rearchitecting applications, change familiar software or IT processes, or introduce complexity to their operations. Oracle makes this easy; AWS does not.

OCI is designed with a zero-trust, security-first architecture. Unlike AWS, OCI provides you with easy-to-implement security controls and automation to prevent misconfiguration errors and implement security best practices. You can secure your workloads and applications in OCI through a diverse portfolio of security services, including identity and access management, data protection and encryption, unified security controls, infrastructure protection, incident identification, remediation, and compliance services.

We were 95% moving to AWS. [But] at the end of the day, our infrastructure team, our ERP team, our project management team voted—it was unanimous for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Darren Owsley CTO, Gonzaga University

Enterprises demand more than just availability from their cloud infrastructure. Mission-critical workloads also require consistent performance, and the ability to manage, monitor, and modify resources running in the cloud at any time. Only Oracle offers end-to-end SLAs covering performance, availability, manageability of services.

One of the most common issues faced by AWS customers is the AWS billing surprise, in which a customer receives a bill and finds they owe more than they expected—and can’t easily figure out why.

It happens because AWS pricing is complex, expensive at scale, and penalizes customers for hard to estimate usage elements such as data transfer and storage performance, which involves taking volume size, provisioned IOPs, and throughput into account for every volume.

AWS provides discounts for three-year commitments on products like compute, but ties those reserved instance commitments to particular compute shapes, operating systems, and regions. While discounting can help win business, the deployments are tying customers in to AWS-only services, and there’s no guarantee that pricing will be there in the future.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides better performance at a significantly lower cost than AWS. Our pricing structure is simple, predictable, and transparent, with none of surprises associated with AWS. Additionally, OCI charges the same flat rate for all regions worldwide, which means there are no hidden cost variances if your business expands globally.

Oracle also provides Universal Credits, which enable customers to use any Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or platform service in any region at a significant savings, with a predictable monthly spend commitment. But just because your spend is monthly, doesn’t mean your usage has to be: these credits don’t expire at the end of the month—they can be used any time during their 12-month contract window.