OCI vs the other guys.
October 19, 2023
OCI vs the other guys.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Compute
- Storage
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
I've used it in various capacities. The most commonly used service/module was for virtual machines in the classic 'application/web server' configuration. I've also used storage for backups and for moving various files on/off Oracle Cloud. Most recently, I used OCI for DNS service because we were using Dyn, which was acquired by Oracle.
- Classic infrastructure ran well.
- Common modules are easily accessible.
- It wasn't overpriced compared to competitors.
- 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.
- The difficult UI did cause us to delete all of our DNS records for one of our domains, which caused outages for some customers in production, and due to that same difficulty, we had to spend a few days getting a script written and put in place so that we could have a proper DNS record backup.
- Uptime was never a problem with any OCI compute resources we had. We weren't using a ton of servers, but they were up and running, which is what we needed.
- There is a lot of documentation if you know how to search that can help you with most of the 'basic' or 'common' tasks/actions/etc, which saves time if you're unfamiliar with OCI.
Using OCI was actually a legacy decision, and we were supporting legacy services/software on it. We only deployed 'new' servers/services/resources in a small capacity, and the 'long-term' plan was to move off OCI so that we could move to Azure or AWS. This wasn't due to anything OCI did bad or wrong but more of an executive decision where they wanted to consolidate the cloud accounts to reduce the number of vendors/software we were using. The OCI version of these services wasn't in any way an 'obvious worse service', but at the executive level, they see what competitors are using and buy into the hype, so that was why the long-term plans were to go to AWS, and Azure.
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?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure again?
Yes