We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We are mostly using EC2 compute and other resources. Most of our managed services are in AWS, which some of our clients prefer."
"Stable platform with a straightforward setup. It's user-friendly, with more reliable servers compared to the competition."
"The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use."
"Using AWS is really helpful for saving costs."
"I like that it helps us do everything really fast, and its advanced services."
"The product is nice and stable. Its performance is great."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"The cutting-edge design is valuable."
"The initial setup of Oracle Cloud is simple...It is a scalable solution."
"Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is about as stable as the other CSPs, but Oracle Cloud is more common in Korea."
"Oracle is a very useful tool in terms of usability and customization."
"Initial setup of databases is not a problem."
"The product's configuration is simple."
"I like having the ability to easily run Oracle Linux server instances and to deploy Oracle Middleware and WebLogic servers. Oracle's Infrastructure as a Service products are also very useful, and we're using those right now within Oracle OCI."
"What I like most about Oracle Cloud Platform is the ease of getting data in and out of the cloud, and the affordable licensing."
"We use the solution for EC2. It helps me to create around six servers for free to test out things. It also provides me with an authenticated cloud nameserver. We also use it as a wireguard endpoint."
"When you are first starting, the initial setup can be a bit complex, but it gets easier after that."
"The interface needs a bit of work. It's not intuitive."
"The pricing could be more competitive."
"Some services that are not used often have poor quality and need to be improved."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"I would like to see CloudFormation made more in the programming way of thinking."
"The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"The monitoring tool and the migration from on-premise to the cloud should be much easier."
"The packaging part of the software needs improvement. It lacks customization abilities for users. Giving them VMs for machine learning or running their own programs like Azure and Amazon, for example. Things like scalability based on the requirement of the tools. Oracle still lacks these kinds of things. For example, if you need a VM from Oracle, you need to pay for a monthly fee. They started developing containership but it's still at the initial stage and it's still lacking. They also need to develop integration between packages."
"I would like the Oracle Cloud Platform to have a more user-friendly UI similar to Microsoft Azure."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"The AI capabilities and the power automate platform that Azure is offering seem to be way ahead of what Oracle is offering."
"The configuration through the cloud is complicated. It's not straightforward."
"The product's technical support is an area with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The product features related to the manufacturing domain must be improved."
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Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is ranked 3rd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 91 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) writes "Cost-effective and can be used to host OIC and APEX". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Public Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift and Alibaba Cloud. See our Amazon AWS vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) report.
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There are many points for comparison between AWS and OCI that greatly affect cost and features: network egress (AWS recently reduced cost to compete with OCI), compute cost (OCI has flexible shapes while AWS uses fixed EC2 capacities), security (OCI compartments has no easy equivalent in AWS), HA within Availability domain (OCI has fault domains, AWS has no equivalent), VMWare capability (vendor managed only in AWS, customer managed in OCI) to name a few. In general, AWS has many features for building new apps on latest dev platforms (e.g. its developer oriented) while OCI may not have as many dev features (i.e. they are always catching up) but is geared more for production, enterprise apps (e.g. considerations for security, scalability and fault tolerance have been there from the start).
But since you are considering packaged Enterprise apps such as Ellucian Banner ERP and Peoplesoft, in general OCI has more to offer than AWS (which is more for developers for new, custom apps). There are docs to deploy Ellucian Banner ERP in OCI (there's a reference architecture) while Peoplesoft, being an Oracle product, has either a full-blown SaaS solution aside from a reference architecture for infra on OCI - these you cannot easily find in AWS. Also, I presume these apps are using an Oracle database backend and there are many benefits to moving an Oracle db to OCI (DB cloud service, autonomous DB, scalability using RAC on fault domains, BYOL credits twice CPUs vs divide by 2 for AWS, varied Data Guard possibilities).