Item: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Rating: 5
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the back end of our non-production/Dev/QA environment. We run an Oracle Enterprise Instance with 100 PDBs. This configuration allows us to the most cost-efficient way to run a large number of Oracle DB non-production DBs and comply with Oracle licensing terms.

Pros and Cons

Oracle DB
License Compliance
Oracle Enterprise Edition

Stability - We'd have multiple outages
Cost - It's the most cost-efficient solution by far, but it's still multiple times the cost of a similar solution from Microsoft Azure
Ease of Use - Nothing is ever easy; it's always more complicated and complex than it has to be

Return on Investment

Positive ROI
Lowered Capital Licensing Costs

Alternatives Considered

AWS Database Migration Service

AWS provides a much more advanced cloud infrastructure than Oracle, but it was too expensive to purchase Oracle licenses for use in AWS. Oracle offers a more cost-effective solution if you run it in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Key Insights

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

Yes

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

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

Did implementation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have to run Oracle and you can't use RDS from AWS, it's a good solution. It allows an easy way to ensure you're complying with Oracle's ever-changing licensing terms at a reasonable cost. We are only comfortable running non-production workloads there, but for those, it's provided us with good service.

If you have to use Oracle, OCI is a good way to do it

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure