Amazon CloudWatch vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Likelihood to Recommend

Ideal for monitoring AWS services and workloads. We have several of our websites entirely hosted on AWS and we're able to get a Grafana dashboard of all the relevant metrics from CloudFront, S3, EC2, RDS, and Elastic Beanstalk. This can be set up within the hour or templated on your code for infrastructure (we do this with terraform & cloud formation). By design, it isn't suited for non-AWS workloads.

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Professional in Finance and Accounting

Financial Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is great for running applications that do not have the performance requirements of a dedicated bare-metal server. It works really well for graphics-intensive workloads, but also for high performance demanding AI and machine learning algorithms. Moreover, you can manage complex organization structures and rules easily with logical groups and policies.

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Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon CloudWatch

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Cloud Management Security

Automation and Orchestration

Cost Management

Cloud Management Performance Monitoring

Governance and Compliance

Resource Management

Systems Integration

Amazon CloudWatch

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Pros

Managing log retention periods is very simple with CloudWatch, and can be configured on a per-group basis.
Monitoring host performance is very easy when coupled with the CloudWatch Agent on an EC2 instance. A simple installation and configuration replaces an entire 3rd-party host monitoring stack.
CloudWatch is flexible enough for not just host monitoring, but application monitoring as well. It's easy to pipe local logs up to CloudWatch and extract structured data in order to monitor and set alerts on custom app metrics.

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Brian Dentino

Founder

finbox.ioInternet, 1-10 employees

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Reduction in cost as no scalability is required from an IT infrastructure side.
Pre-configured, engineered and simple in nature. This helps in reducing complexity on the IT side.
Less number of workers needed. Helps in effectively reducing man power and using comp.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Its limitation on only Amazon resources.
Cost is higher.
Lack of ability to create graphs on distinct counts and histograms which can make it hard quickly identify specific IP addresses that have a high request volume in a certain period. We have worked around this but a feature on the dashboard would be nice.

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Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Visual network designer would assistant in ensuring configuration matches intended design.
Automatic and seemless migration of VMs from OCI Classic to OCI would show that Oracle is taking cloud infrastructure service seriously.
Better, faster support. Traditional methods of filing SRs date back to the 1980s. Online realitime chat with support that know what they're doing is critical.
One click template image load from Oracle Cloud Marketplace is basic omission. It's available for oci-c but not oci.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Usability

No score

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 7.3

Based on 1 answer

doesn't have a mobile version

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Adriana Grama

Junior Assistant Developer

Technology Network ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support

Amazon CloudWatch 7.0

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AWS Support is great, and even besides the official support, the user community support on the web is at least as great. They give quick answers to all your questions.

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Professional in Information Technology

Fund-Raising Company, 1001-5000 employees

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No score

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Alternatives Considered

I can only speak to how it's positively benefited my organization. The problem was that hosting in-house servers is no longer a cost-effective solution vs. containerization in the cloud. But once you rely on hosting servers in the cloud you need a tool to manage every aspect of that including log monitoring, resource utilization, and application performance. Amazon CloudWatch is exactly the tool you need.

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Employee in Engineering

Information Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Oracle Cloud is more cost efficient when compared to AWS, Google cloud, and Microsoft Azure. However, the enterprise user support is not up to the mark as compared to the others. Also, out of box features available are minimal and bare-bones.

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Sirish Vadala

Applications Developer Information Technology Specialist

Office of Legislative Counsel State of CaliforniaInformation Services, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

CloudWatch is liked by the IT guys, in that it makes their job easier. Whether that actually is a positive ROI is debatable. It doesn't seem like it.
CloudWatch could have a positive ROI in the sense that IT professionals consider it an integral tool to streamline their management of IT resources.
Cloud is not a positive ROI in the sense that it doesn't appear to have saved any money on the personnel or software side.

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Thomas Young

Owner, previous CEO

Econometric StudiosFinancial Services, 11-50 employees

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We have an internal chargeback for infrastructure and we anticipate the cost factor will be neutral.
We have been impressed with the provisioning aspect of OCI and expect it to save on data center staff.
The scalability of OCI has been a timesaver for our environments.

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Ray Hirte

APEX (Peoplesoft) ERP Program Manager

Hennepin CountyGovernment Administration, 5001-10,000 employees

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Likelihood to Recommend