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by MattGaiser 2244 days ago
I suspect Oracle is giving good deals as nobody ever considers them as a cloud provider, so they need to gain market share to stay relevant. They wouldn’t be in the top 10 lists of ones I would think of.

How many here even knew they had a cloud you could use?
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Havoc 2244 days ago
I did. Tried their free credit stuff. Was seriously unimpressed. Felt like a beta test

Unless it's way cheaper I don't see the point

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laughyy4 2244 days ago
Oracle and cheap.

Thanks for the laugh.

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lucianf 2243 days ago
That's not fair, this is about OCI not the larger Oracle. It's like bashing Azure for what Microsoft has done in the past (funny how we're not hearing much about that anymore).

OCI is cheaper than AWS on pretty much every metric. In this particular context:

"The Reuters article helpfully points out that Zoom has 217,000 terabytes a month of traffic flowing through it. If we assume all of that is from inside of Zoom’s environment out to the internet (it absolutely isn’t, but it’s a fine worst-case data transfer scenario) and all of it is moving to Oracle now that the deal is signed (certainly not happening, but work with me here), according to public pricing that data transfer would cost, per month: $11,186,406.55 on AWS, nobody knows on Azure because the pricing calculator thinks I’m screwing with it when I put that big of a number into it, and $1,843,630 (hat tip to Jeffery Lyon on that; I moved a decimal in an earlier version of this post) on Oracle Cloud."

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-zoom-chose-oracle-clo...

(disclaimer, I work at Oracle)

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mirekrusin 2244 days ago
"Cheap" as in "cheap drugs" given by drug dealer to new customers to hook them up.
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lucianf 2243 days ago
I think that's unfair (I may be biased as I work at Oracle) but many people would argue Oracle is well in the top 5 (if you look at global infrastructure and platform, and discount SaaS-only and/or regional vendors).

OCI is also growing very fast (aiming for 36 regions by the end of the year) and adding lots of products beyond basic compute and storage, particularly around cloud native (functions, managed Kubernetes, API gateway), of course database (classic, autonomous, MySQL, NoSQL) plus streaming, events, monitoring email delivery, marketplace etc. And a lot of Oracle products as PaaS (analytics, integration, blockchain etc.)

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andrewflnr 2244 days ago
Me, but not because I wanted to. They advertised pretty heavily in the Washington DC metro, big bright red ads all over.
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