Great for Oracle Database and SaaS; highly cost effective
December 05, 2020

Great for Oracle Database and SaaS; highly cost effective

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is used by the user profile and product catalog department of my company's e-commerce arm. We adopted Oracle Public Cloud to deploy Oracle services like Java Cloud Service, ExaData, etc. in the Cloud.
Since JCS is Oracle's SaaS extension to reduce the complexity associated with deploying and maintaining enterprise Java applications, we decided to deploy in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to ensure a better and seamless vendor service
  • Works well with Oracle's SaaS
  • Oracle Cloud VMware Solution delivers the same VMware experience that enterprises have on premises
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has cloud interoperability partnership with Microsoft Azure
  • UI navigation needs some improvement
  • Load balancing in OCI has limited functionality; it can be improved a lot
  • Existing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure components are not enough to implement all cloud solutions
  • Quick start with clear documentation
  • Overall performance is not as good as AWS
  • Cost effective if scalability needs aren't much
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure load balancer is better than Azure's. Oracle offers a shapeless design that enables you to build instances that meet customer's needs, not the need of the cloud provider. This eliminates the issue where customers need to pay for more CPU than they really need.

Do you think Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's feature set?

Yes

Did Oracle Cloud Infrastructure live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure again?

Yes

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is good if intended to be used as IAAS/PAAS for standalone applications. The user interface has a lot of glitches. The reliability is not great, as instances can be unavailable sometimes. Load balancing capability has limited functionality, so it's not recommended when you can not predict high web traffic.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Feature Ratings

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
8
Dynamic scaling
8
Elastic load balancing
9
Pre-configured templates
8
Monitoring tools
8
Pre-defined machine images
8
Operating system support
9
Security controls
8