[Analemma_]

Oracle Cloud sometimes feels like an elaborate prank that I'm not in on. I know people and companies on AWS (obviously), Azure, Google Cloud, Hetzner, CloudFlare's various PaaS offerings, etc., but I can't name a single thing running on Oracle Cloud. Somebody out there is clearly using but I'll be damned if I know who it is.

[neo_doom]

We host more than 200 customers in OCI (because we have to). Its terrible. The service is terrible and they are breaking stuff all the time. Amsterdam down for a few hours today alone. We spend millions with them and can’t even get someone to join a bridge. It’s baaad

[nunez]

Zoom ran on OCI some time ago; not sure if they still do. (They got a shitload of free credits iirc)

Many companies use OCI for their Oracle DBs, as I believe they get some sort of discount when run this way.

[alephnerd]

> I can't name a single thing running on Oracle Cloud

CrowdStrike and Uber

> Hetzner

I don't know of any upper market EMEA customers on Hetzner. I've met Scaleway, OVHCloud, and even STACKIT users but never Hetzner.

[ethbr1]

I think the market for Oracle Cloud is the same for early GCP: companies with large enough needs and strong enough engineering teams that they can leverage "X runs on Oracle Cloud" into deep discounts. And then cover the gaps with engineering.

[alephnerd]

Partially. It's basically only enterprise and upper market organizations that were hit by billing re-negotiations by AWS, GCP, or Azure and want a high touch experience.

[wil421]

A company I worked at knowingly bought very sub-par oracle products just to get discounts on the Oracle ERP and DB stuff.

[tmp10423288442]

TikTok for US users

[bhouston]

When your customers are government mandated, are they really customers or hostages?

[dragonwriter]

Uh, while the sale to the Oracle-led group was government mandated, the use of Oracle Cloud for hosting by the new US TikTok is just self-dealing by the new ownership.

Of course, when your “customers” are just self-dealing, that’s also not a great sign.

[xorcist]

Keep in mind that Oracle can be deliberately nebulous about what their cloud offering is (pun intended).

Any hosted service can be bent into the shape of a cloud. Large parts of Oracle Cloud balance sheet is probably just hosted PeopleSoft and similar.

They have this in common with IBM which, at least on paper, have a large cloud business.

[cyberpunk]

zoom. uber. airbnb. openai. bunch of banks. samsung, apparently..

[seattle_spring]

I know at least one of those only uses Oracle for internal/HR "cloud" purposes, while their main customer-facing business is on AWS. Not sure about the others, but when I think of a business using "Oracle cloud" I don't interpret it as just their marketing/HR.

[soared]

A lot of internal stuff ends up on Oracle cloud since it’s easier, jira, confluence, etc