We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."AWS is easier to implement than other solutions, and it's more reliable."
"Amazon AWS is user-friendly and intuitive."
"Amazon AWS is good in terms of deployment and user experience. Their certificate management and load balancer are also good features."
"It streamlines tasks like table creation and data loading into Redshift, making the process more efficient and manageable."
"The documentation is very good."
"The initial setup is not difficult and it did not take us more than one day."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"We can spin up the server anytime and have root access to it."
"Oracle offers more of the basic functionality needs."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product gives you independence from hardware onsite, the setup is easy, and there is no need for hardware maintenance."
"We appreciate the fact that this solution will operate with both native and third-party applications. This has meant that we don't need to change all of our systems to accommodate it within our network."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Interface."
"It's a cloud, so it is easy to access anywhere."
"It has improved my company by cutting my time to market."
"The stability of the solution is very good...The technical support is good."
"The price could be better. Support for data analytics could be better. I don't see much support for data analytics. They have a lot of support in Azure, but I don't see a lot of innovation on the data analytics side in AWS."
"User personalization and robotic process automation services need to be mature enough. More APIs are required for robotic process automation services. Azure is more mature in terms of user personalization and robotic process automation services. The document processing can also be better. Whenever we want to do any kind of document management, I try to do OCR, ICR, etc. The functionality in AWS has to be more like that."
"Some of the storage services could be cheaper."
"I'd like to see integration with MySQL."
"One problem is that the AWS public cloud doesn't have shared storage capabilities. The second thing is the cloud performance versus on-prem."
"I don't have complaints. Previously, we asked for more end-to-end workshops, examples, and tutorials and these have been added and improved."
"Amazon AWS could improve by being more secure and adding more features."
"There is no control of downtime."
"They could add more features."
"Areas that need improvement are the pricing and the support."
"I think that there could be a more user-friendly environment when it comes to the options that Oracle presents through the Oracle Cloud Platform."
"The solution is expensive. So we try to use MySQL on AWS to push the data. The tool’s support could be improved."
"It takes more time to release resources than one of its competitors."
"It could be more affordable."
"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."
"The monitoring tool and the migration from on-premise to the cloud should be much easier."
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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, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Public Cloud, OpenShift and Alibaba Cloud.
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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).