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by zaphar 3903 days ago 

    Or get an EC2 instance and install your own personal copy 
    of Oracle on it.
Good luck with the licensing for running Oracle on an EC2 instance. How many different cores will Oracle potentially be running on? Thousands with the way EC2 works. Just wait till Oracle does an audit and watch your back licensing fees skyrocket. But don't worry! There's a way out. Just move it all to Oracle's new in house cloud. They'll even help with the move for a very "reasonable" consulting fee.
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protomyth 3903 days ago
No doubt. I tried to move our Oracle installation[1] from an aging box to our VMWare server and the price jump was going to be something on the order of 5x.

1) another one of those fun vendor software needs Oracle things

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discodave 3896 days ago
That's why AWS launched dedicated instances, pretty much for exactly this use case.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-dedicated-instan...

:)

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