Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side
As Oracle launches its Exadata service on Database@AWS — a year after it went live for lower-level databases — experts have warned there are trade-offs in getting value for money and cautioned over Oracle FUD around the cloud migration decision-making. Earlier this month, Big Red announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle AI Database@AWS, which adds the beefed-up Oracle database to the service. AWS was the last major cloud service to join the “database@” offer from Oracle, allowing the database and application biz to put its hardware inside the hyperscaler's datacenters.
Announced in 2024, Oracle Database@AWS can connect to applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Analytics services, or AWS's advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services, the vendor claims. The service became generally available in July last year.
Oracle now says it is bringing Exadata – the engineered hardware and software platform for high-performance databases — to AWS. The dominant cloud vendor has also signed a new long-term strategic collaboration agreement to help migrate customers.Using Exadata allows customers to specify the compute and storage capacity they need, says Oracle, while spreading every database across pooled storage servers for high performance and availability, helping to avoid the burden of creating database and storage servers. However, Oracle licensing and commercial experts have warned that there are still trade-offs when adopting the service and getting value for money.
