Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs popular Public Cloud Platforms

Key differentiators according to Oracle on how OCI is better than Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) -

  1. Pricing Predictability - Same pricing worldwide across 36 cloud regions in 19 countries (as of Feb 2022)
  2. Lowest TCO for Oracle Database and applications - Oracle Bring Your Own License (BYOL) is 50% less on OCI than any other public cloud, including Azure. Oracle offers Universal Credits and BYOL2PaaS to help customers bring their existing Oracle software licenses to OCI. Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) don’t support Oracle technology in the same way. High-performance Oracle workloads, large Oracle databases and a wider portfolio of Oracle DBaaS are all better supported by OCI than other CSPs. As a rule of thumb, organizations may require double licenses for the same computing capabilities related to the number of core processors to enable the same Oracle product on other CSPs, compared with OCI.
  3. Fully supported advanced database options, such as Exadata and Oracle RAC. Technical functionalities related to high availability, like Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC), are only available on OCI.
  4. Fully managed services with wide options for Oracle Database, including bare metal and VM database systems, Oracle Exadata database systems, and Autonomous Databases 
  5. Highest performance for Oracle workloads
  6. Highest scalability for enterprise Oracle workloads
  7. Industry-leading low-cost data egress - In OCI, first 10TB is free and has the lowest per TB charge of all hyperscalers. In case of AWS, first 100 GB is free, for Azure, first 5GB is free while in GCP, there is no free threshold
  8. Intra-Region AD/AZ Data Transfer Cost - No additional cost in OCI. 
  9. Support - OCI offers SLAs for availability, performance, and management. AWS, Azure, and GCP offer only availability SLA.
  10. For every dollar spent on OCI, Oracle reimburses up to 33 cents on license support. 
  11. VMware solution with full administrative control
  12. Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer is a completely managed cloud region that brings all of Oracle’s public cloud services (and Oracle Fusion SaaS applications) into a customer’s data center, helping address data sovereignty concerns.
  13. Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer uses the same billing model as public OCI, where customers only pay for what they use.
  14. Customizable compute shapes and storage performance unlike in AWS & Azure.
Larry Ellison introduced OCI at Open World 2016. 

The OCI elasticity model, coupled with Oracle’s license-based charging, allows for a simple ad hoc rationalization of the Oracle license estate. For example, rather than committing to 16 CPUs, you can size for fewer and then flex, or burst, to higher CPU usage as needed. 

Oracle Autonomous Database can tune databases automatically, update and patch the database management system (DBMS) without downtime, and provide strong DBMS security. This can reduce the routine tasks of a database administrator and optimize performance.

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