[vidarh]

Operating infrastructure costs what it costs, and it is a tiny fraction of what Amazon prices it at.

I make a lot of my income cutting peoples infrastructure costs by optimising their setups, and a lot of it involves moving people off AWS (I also move people onto AWS when they have needs that are actually best met there - there are lots of AWS services I love, but they are expensive) to save money. I can generally price my services at a few months worth of their savings.

Competing with AWS on price isn't the hard part. The challenge is the amount of people that either don't care, or think that AWS is cheap without having done realistic comparisons.

But for Oracle, those are exactly the type of customers they have built their entire business around selling to.