Amazon CloudWatch vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Amazon CloudWatch

If you're just starting out with smaller applications in the AWS cloud, then AWS cloudwatch is the right tool. When your company starts growing, along with your software becoming more mature, you may end up piping your logs to another system in order to do more analytics on it and gather better insights

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Project Manager in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

We don't feel confident enough in OCI to put our production environment in there yet. It may be well suited however we need to do our due diligence. Also as a government agency we need to ensure that our data is never located outside of the US at any time. We do feel it will be well suited for our PUM, Demo, Dev, Test and staging environments in the cloud. Our strategy is to get our staff working on more high value tasks and offload the mundane things on the OCI environment. We may even outsource our server patching. The additional items that come in the cloud purchase make it particularly appealing. These items include data masking, goldengate and the backup and recovery services.

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Ray Hirte

APEX (Peoplesoft) ERP Program Manager

Hennepin CountyGovernment Administration, 5001-10,000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon CloudWatch

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

7.8

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

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7.9

Dynamic scaling

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7.3

Elastic load balancing

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8.2

Pre-configured templates

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7.7

Monitoring tools

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7.5

Pre-defined machine images

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8.3

Operating system support

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7.6

Security controls

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7.6

Pros

The ability to create dashboards off of metrics
Setting alarms when things go wrong so we get alerts
Its integrations with other AWS products.

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Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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The only supported platform supported by PeopleSoft Cloud Manager
Consistent and predictable performance
Underlying technology design is built for resilience and performance.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Building cloudwatch dashboards can be cumbersome. You have to navigate through various screens to get the metrics you want to add.
Exporting alarm / alerting data is not available for further post-processing or analysis
You have to build alerts and alarms yourself. CloudWatch does not give you any recommendations, so you have to know what you're doing.

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Director in Engineering

Sports 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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Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Usability

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)7.3

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doesn't have a mobile version

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Technology Network ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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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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Information Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Because of our PeopleSoft usage we haven't evaluated any other platforms or options. Our organization has however we have a distributed IT organization.

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Ray Hirte

APEX (Peoplesoft) ERP Program Manager

Hennepin CountyGovernment Administration, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

Very positive ROI, we are able to pre-empt production issues via alerting
CloudWatch is low cost and allows us to get enterprise level monitoring
CloudWatch allows us to get visibility into all of our workloads and see how traffic is increasing or decreasing and make product level decisions

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Director in Engineering

Sports Company, 51-200 employees

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