DATABASES
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…
