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Amazon migrates more than 100 consumer services from Oracle to AWS databases

AWS and Oracle love to take shots at each other, but as much as Amazon has knocked Oracle over the years, it was forced to admit that it was in fact a customer. Today in a company blog post, the company announced it was shedding Oracle for AWS databases, and had effectively turned off its final Oracle database.

The move involved 75 petabytes of internal data stored in nearly 7,500 Oracle databases, according to the company. “I am happy to report that this database migration effort is now complete. Amazon’s Consumer business just turned off its final Oracle database (some third-party applications are tightly bound to Oracle and were not migrated),” AWS’s Jeff Barr wrote in the company blog post announcing the migration.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/614ce236-730d-3809-9e9b-bc56fe01f50b/amazon-migrates-more-than-100.html

by Anonymous
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Its funny to see employees working in O cursing it. Every company has problems. If one is not happy, you are happy to leave. Very easy to blame Larry or leaders. At least Oracle is giving a decent fight to AWS. Companies like VM Ware, HP conceded defeat.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @3sbz+11xE56Um

MSSQL is everywhere, on-site and in Azure space. The large software vendor I work at only supports MSSQL. Oracle to MSSQL migrations are common, as Oracle to AWS will be soon. Good move to diversify your skill set, 1nov.

by F7kh
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Post ID: @1tpn+11xE56Um

@11xE56Um-1hby Everything post WWII is trendy technology for our 75 year old chairman

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1edo+11xE56Um

Good for Amazon! Oracle's customers will follow! They want out so bad.

Oracle is so dead.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1guo+11xE56Um
I seem to be touching every trendy technology except Oracle's.

Oracle has a "trendy" tecnology?

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1hby+11xE56Um

@11xE56Um-1jjl in our use cases, GCP strength is in the area of big data/data engineering/curator/data science/MLaaS. Though, I mainly deal with SSIS, SSRS, and Tableau on top of dba works. I seem to be touching every trendy technology except Oracle's.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1wpg+11xE56Um

“ GCP is a different animal. ”

Why do you say that? What’s different about GCP?

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1jjl+11xE56Um

One way ticket. Similar to where I am working now. Sadly, I need to ditch Oracle db skillset that I had invested since Oracle7 and EBS to MSSQL and Postgresql. I started to not liking MSSQL but isn't bad at all after a while. Something I can build a career upon. Azure is exciting and the winner of the cloud is pretty clear. Overall, Azure not that far behind AWS in most cases. GCP is a different animal. The Oracle skill set was once a hot primary skill. It is a supplement skill now.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1nov+11xE56Um

When LE mocked them saying "they spend $50M with us and it's really hard to move" at OOW you could almost sense AWS saying "challenge accepted".

Now they can share not just that they did it, but how to do it.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1exk+11xE56Um

The utter stupidity of LE!

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1nes+11xE56Um

So true. I work at AWS now and everyone has worked harder than usual to make this happen earlier than expected. Burnt bridges are impossible to repair. It’s always a rebuild. Too bad LE is too old a dog to teach any new tricks.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1gdp+11xE56Um

This falls right at the feet of LE. Instead of trying to be a real business man and try to negotiate a way to keep their business he had to act like a lit up frat boy and metaphorically drop his pants in their faces. Your act is getting old.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @jyg+11xE56Um

Great! the less customers O has the faster we'll close shop.

by Anonymous
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