Amazon Web Services vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Web Services
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools.
$100
per month
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracles's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform which combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.N/A
Pricing
Amazon Web ServicesOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Editions & Modules
Free Tier
$0
per month
Basic Environment
$100 - $200
per month
Intermediate Environment
$250 - $600
per month
Advanced Environment
$600-$2500
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon Web ServicesOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAWS allows a “save when you commit” option that offers lower prices when you sign up for a 1- or 3- year term that includes an AWS service or category of services.
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Community Pulse
Amazon Web ServicesOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Considered Both Products
Amazon Web Services
Chose Amazon Web Services
AWS stands out in its ability to adapt technology more quickly. All the new features, first adapted by AWS, make it the market leader. The key metrics, such as MTTR, are among the best among all other cloud service providers. The AWS dashboard and analytics features are very …
Chose Amazon Web Services
We tried various other cloud providers and features provided by them.
Many of the cloud providers have similar features but there are few factors which make Amazon Web Services cloud as preferable choice of our bank are cost, location of Amazon Web Services datacenter where it …
Chose Amazon Web Services
OCI and Google Compute Engine are a bit cheaper than AWS but AWS has better chargeback and more granular monitoring of various KPIs. But at the same time, AWS has a learning curve while GCE especially is much easier to use. Microsoft Azur has a much better partner and developer …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
In one liner, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is second only to AWS in terms of cost effectiveness. But availability wise and performance wise it is at par with Amazon Web Services. Acquia Cloud doesn't have much comparison against Oracle Cloud Infrastructured as the later is …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) competes effectively with cloud giants like AWS, Azure and GCP. OCI's standout features include robust security and compliance measures, transparent pricing with cost optimization tools, high-performance computing capabilities, seamless …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
We wanted to move our heroku service to other cloud platform with better reliability and scalability. So we decided to give it a try.
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
When compared to AWS, Azure, and Veem, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure appeared to have a more robust offering for our primary objective of Disaster Recovery. The Oracle single click disaster recovery plan creation tool was especially beneficial as this is our first true …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
We don't face any issues with Google Cloud Platform, it's just like we want to save some billing costs so we looked for other solutions like Digital Ocean or Linode, but we found Oracle Cloud Infrastructure best suited for our requirements. Its region wise segregation also …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure excels in website hosting Oracle workloads. It gives optimized infrastructure and database offerings for Oracle Database, making it a natural preference for businesses heavily reliant on Oracle technology. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's close …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OCI does not stack up against these products due to their wide range of services, support, and ease of troubleshooting. There is an abundance of tutorials on the services provided by the competition, which makes them more easy to use. However, OCI is very competitive in pricing.
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
We use AWS and Google Cloud widely in our organization. However, we also use Oracle Databases for critical business, and OCI integrates well. We use OCI to test out our hypothesis for a rapid product. The Free tier is extremely useful to play around before committing.
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Compared to its competitors, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the best solution for autonomous databases which reduces the overall operational burden on the team. It is best suited for regulated industries like Banking due to its enhanced compliance and security along with its …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
While AWS and Azure are more mature than Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we felt Oracle Cloud Infrastructure had a lower barrier to entry with a greater range of always-free services. It also provides free certification opportunities periodically which incentivised our engineers …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
We did an proof of concept between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was the clear winner with us because of support of the product. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure support staff was very knowledgeable and helpful …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
I believe Oracle Cloud is still behind AWS and Google in terms of offering and innovation. Huawei Cloud seems like a direct competitor in the "legacy workload to cloud migrations" segment of the industry, pricing strategy, and enterprise-like sales tactics. We went with Oracle …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Lower cost, faster and more powerful in terms of high-capacity apps, and has solutions to meet the need of a specific group of customers.
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Honestly, It is much easier to use and operate your workloads on other cloud providers than Oracle, however, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure main advantage is its existence in some different countries/regions where others haven't established a foothold yet, making its cloud …
Chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
The main thing we discussed while we Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is [that] we can use/integrate other Oracle products like Oracle Infrastructure storage [and] Infrastructure networking. To be simple, it support[s] all Oracle services, which make the process more reliable in the …
Features
Amazon Web ServicesOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Web Services
8.4
77 Ratings
2% above category average
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
7.2
136 Ratings
13% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime9.072 Ratings8.2131 Ratings
Dynamic scaling8.873 Ratings8.0131 Ratings
Elastic load balancing9.369 Ratings8.1120 Ratings
Pre-configured templates7.166 Ratings6.0120 Ratings
Monitoring tools8.373 Ratings7.1131 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images8.066 Ratings6.7118 Ratings
Operating system support8.571 Ratings6.4130 Ratings
Security controls8.674 Ratings7.2132 Ratings
Automation8.325 Ratings7.094 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon Web ServicesOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(81 ratings)
8.0
(135 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.4
(10 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(12 ratings)
8.0
(13 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(25 ratings)
Support Rating
7.2
(24 ratings)
7.0
(18 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Online Training
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(3 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(9 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Web ServicesOracle Cloud Infrastructure
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
This is something that is actually common across most cloud providers. A comprehensive understanding of one's use cases, constraints and future directions is key to determining if you even need a cloud solution. If you are a 2-person startup developing something with a best-scenario audience of 1k DAU in a year, you would very likely best served by a dirt-cheap dedicated Linux server somewhere (and your options to graduate to a cloud solution will still be open). If, however, you are a bigger fish, and/or you are actively considering build-vs-buy decisions for complicated, highly-loaded, six-figure requests per minute systems, global loadbalancing, extreme growth projections - then MAYBE you solve all or part of it with a cloud provider. And depending on your taste for risk, reliability, flexibility, track record - it might be AWS.
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Oracle
As per our usage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for almost 6 years hosting 500 + customers I can say its well suited application for any small scale to larger scale application as it can handle that capacity and provide more reliable cloud service only if you need any messaging service like pub/sub or sqs better to consider other services.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • During the month-end, we experience high resource utilization; however, with AWS's scalability, we can effectively tackle the peak load.
  • With AWS IAM, we don't need to set up complete infrastructure for identity and access management, as AWS provides end-to-end IAM services.
  • With AWS, development has become very easy as it's very quick to spin up and destroy the environment, which saves costs.
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Oracle
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a generous free tier, moreso than other hyperscalers, with an always-free tier that guarantees certain products are always free
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows you to size VMs with differing combinations of CPU and RAM, which is contrary to other hyperscalers that have specific pre-defined combinations only
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regularly provides free certification exam offers
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • When there is any misconfiguration of EC2 related to SSM Connect. It doesn't clearly states that what particular configuration is missing.
  • Debugging networking related issues could be improved.
  • From the security group page, it's difficult to determine which resource a security group is associated with.
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Oracle
  • Navigating the UI takes lots of getting used to. It reminds me of older GCP (just to get used to where everything is).
  • Permission for different things always seemed to be more difficult than it really needed to be. Once you got them set up you were good but updating anything or creating new permissions for just about anything took longer than I thought it should.
  • Based on how the buttons were laid out, it was pretty easy to delete all of your DNS records, and backing them up was not as intuitive as I'd like with the UI, but it was easy to do using a script.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
We are almost entirely satisfied with the service. In order to move off it, we'd have to build for ourselves many of the services that AWS provides and the cost would be prohibitive. Although there are cost savings and security benefits to returning to the colo facility, we could never afford to do it, and we'd hate to give up the innovation and constant cycle of new features that AWS gives us.
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Oracle
Reliability: Very dependable and stable OCI services have been for the business operations.Performance: The speed and efficiency of OCI in meeting their computing and storage needs.Scalability: The ease and effectiveness of scaling resources up or down to accommodate changing demands.Security: The robustness and effectiveness of OCI's security features in protecting their data and applications.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
AWS offers a wide range of powerful services that cater to various business needs which is significant strength. The ability to scale resources on-demand is a major advantage making it suitable for businesses of all sizes. The sheer volume of options and configurations can be overwhelming for new users leading to a steep learning curve. While functional the AWS management console can feel cluttered and less intuitive compared to some competitors which can hinder navigation. Although some documentation lacks clarity and practical examples which can frustrate users trying to implement specific solutions.
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Oracle
The services & products in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure needs more improvement to beat other Cloud service providers. The price is good & Security processes are good. We are requiring to put more effort in supporting this Oracle Cloud Infrastructure than other Cloud service providers. Probably better ways are there but is not super easy to find or not super available
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Reliability and Availability
Amazon AWS
Availability is very good, with the exception of occasional spectacular outages.
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Oracle
Yeah sometimes we had to face unplanned outages due to underlying infrastructure issues, so not every time,e but once in a while we face issues with availability. But the good thing is we have redundancy with DR setup and multi region so we can manage.
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Performance
Amazon AWS
AWS does not provide the raw performance that you can get by building your own custom infrastructure. However, it is often the case that the benefits of specialized, high-performance hardware do not necessarily outweigh the significant extra cost and risk. Performance as perceived by the user is very different from raw throughput.
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Oracle
From the start, I was surprised by response times and image quality accessing windows VMs with RDP. GCP, Azure and -many offerings in AWS- don't perform this speed. Also, that's evident in the quality of Infrastructure Management Team, because I just received one warning regarding a region failure, what confirms that's a mature platform.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
The customer support of Amazon Web Services are quick in their responses. I appreciate its entire team, which works amazingly, and provides professional support. AWS is a great tool, indeed, to provide customers a suitable way to
immediately search for their compatible software's and also to guide them in a
good direction. Moreover, this product is a good suggestion for every type of
company because of its affordability and ease of use.
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Oracle
Overall it is amazing, there is always room for improvement. We have weekly updates that tend to slow the program used more and more. We had to change some reports within Oracle because the others wouldn’t load. This is tied to our payroll and the delays are causing many time constraint issues and panic. We have to create a new report when one breaks. Otherwise awesome!
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In-Person Training
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Oracle
Effective training provided, much data productivity while doing training
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Online Training
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Oracle
detailed and easy to understand.
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
The API's were very well documented and was Janova's main point of entry into the services.
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Oracle
Easier way to implement, vary much supportive way doing the implementation
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Amazon Web Services fits best for all levels of organisations like startup, mid level or enterprise. The services are easy to use and doesn't require a high level of understanding as you can learn via blogs or youtube videos. AWS is Reasonable in cost as the plan is pay as you use.
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Oracle
We used Microsoft Azure and Docker earlier and faced some difficulties like Microsoft Azure and Docker. Occasionally, the generation of large images can delay deployment. It is also necessary for me to admit that Microsoft Azure and Docker have a somewhat steep learning curve. Proper paperwork needs to be there. Docker has issues with performance on a number of platforms. On the other hand, OCI is easy to deploy and easy to understand.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Oracle
was not part of initial purchase team. Anyways, i think unit pricing and billing frequency is good compared to other Cloud service providers, when it comes to Cloud Capital expenditure & Operational expenditure. Would be more interested in exploring more options where customers can get more cost relaxations on trying out new cloud services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for example a new App or a feature
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Scalability
Amazon AWS
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Oracle
We have hosted around 500 + customers on this cloud so till day not faced any major issues, so we can use it for any kind of products and it can hold the load and easily scale based on need.
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Professional Services
Amazon AWS
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Oracle
Services & Infra wise is ok to use & host applications & services. Security wise also good for a Cloud service provider. It is a interesting area to explore & using it for day to day needs can be further improvised in future probably. Modern day Services like AI and Machine learning could be improved
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Using Amazon Web Services has allowed us to develop and deploy new SAAS solutions quicker than we did when we used traditional web hosting. This has allowed us to grow our service offerings to clients and also add more value to our existing services.
  • Having AWS deployed has also allowed our development team to focus on delivering high-quality software without worrying about whether our servers will be able to handle the demand. Since AWS allows you to adjust your server needs based on demand, we can easily assign a faster server instance to ease and improve service without the client even knowing what we did.
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Oracle
  • Oracle Cloud helps us build and deploy apps quickly, getting our products out the door faster.
  • With real-time insights from Oracle Cloud, we can give customers personalized experiences that boost satisfaction.
  • Migrating to Oracle saves us cash on hardware and maintenance, which we can use for innovation and growth.
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