{"id":36933,"date":"2018-11-13T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2018\/nov\/13\/get-your-cloud-aws-ceo-claims-move-away-oracle-imminent\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T11:09:10","slug":"get-off-of-your-cloud-aws-ceo-claims-move-away-from-oracle-is-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/get-off-of-your-cloud-aws-ceo-claims-move-away-from-oracle-is-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"Get off of your cloud: AWS CEO claims move away from Oracle is imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/iStock-157739063_eJBeTmV.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">The Oracle and Amazon mud-slinging shows no signs of slowing down. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has claimed its consumer businesses are now fully off Oracle&rsquo;s data warehouse, with the vast majority of critical system databases running on its own solution by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">The source comes right from the top; writing on Twitter, CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon&rsquo;s consumer arm turned off Oracle on November 1 and moved to Redshift, Amazon&rsquo;s equivalent data warehousing tool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/uploads\/James\/2018\/11\/13\/jassy.jpg\" style=\"height:100%; object-fit:contain; width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Oracle, and in particular co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison, has been taking sideswipes at all things AWS for almost as long as they have been in the cloud game. As this publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2018\/oct\/24\/oracle-unveils-next-generation-cloud-vision-openworld-autonomous-and-rearchitected\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">put it last month<\/a> for the Oracle OpenWorld keynote: &ldquo;Oracle&rsquo;s autonomous database is certainly Ellison&rsquo;s favourite topic right now &ndash; but bashing the biggest player in cloud infrastructure must rank a close second.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Increasingly, Ellison had been telling customers, analysts, and anyone else who would listen of the irony that AWS was still a major Oracle customer. Back in December, following the company&rsquo;s Q2 2018 results, questions turned to customers moving off the platform. Ellison said: &ldquo;Let me tell you who&rsquo;s not moving off of Oracle &ndash; a company you&rsquo;ve heard of that gave us another $50 million this quarter. That company is Amazon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">&ldquo;Our competitors, who have no reason to like us very much, continue to invest in and run their entire business on Oracle.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Similarly, Oracle&rsquo;s much-vaunted autonomous database technology makes Amazon look distinctly second best, according to Ellison. At OpenWorld, the Oracle CTO called Amazon&rsquo;s upcoming offering &lsquo;semi-autonomous&rsquo; and described it as akin to a &lsquo;semi-self-driving car.&rsquo; &ldquo;You get in, you drive, and you die,&rdquo; he told attendees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Amazon CTO Werner Vogels added to Jassy&rsquo;s remarks. Writing again on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Werner\/status\/1061056953399439360\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">Vogels said<\/a> the company had &ldquo;moved on to newer, faster, more reliable, more agile, more versatile technology at lower cost and higher scale.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Vogels had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Werner\/status\/1054901529478459392\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">previously taken to Twitter<\/a> to claim a CNBC article which alleged Amazon&rsquo;s moving off Oracle caused a debilitating Prime Day outage was inaccurate. The Amazon CTO refuted the article&rsquo;s accuracy, claiming the internal document from which the story was based was from an unrelated issue. &ldquo;Clickbait won,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">According to the most recent figures from industry watcher Synergy Research, AWS continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2018\/oct\/26\/aws-hits-67bn-quarterly-revenue-biggest-cloud-infrastructure-players-get-even-bigger\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">dominate the market<\/a> holding more than a third (34%) of total share. Microsoft Azure remains a clear second player with 14% of the market, with Google (7%), IBM (7%) and Alibaba (4%) rounding off the top five. The analyst firm noted that while growth rates were starting to plateau, growing at 100% when reaching massive scale was not an option. More importantly, these companies are all still growing and all still increasing market share.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">For now, two events later this month will make for interesting viewing from AWS&rsquo; side. Black Friday will give Amazon a chance to show off how good its data warehouse is &ndash; with hopefully no Prime Day-esque outages to fuel the fire &ndash; while AWS re:Invent kicks off in two weeks&rsquo; time. Jassy tweeted that his keynote would &lsquo;squeeze four hours of content into less than three.&rsquo; Expect a couple of barbed comments about a certain Redwood-based company to still make the cut, though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cyber-security-world-series-1.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cyber-security-world-series-1.png\" style=\"height:43px; width:199px\" \/><\/a><strong>Interested in hearing industry leaders discuss subjects like this and sharing their experiences and use-cases<\/strong>? Attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/\">Cyber Security &amp; Cloud Expo World Series<\/a> with upcoming events in Silicon Valley, London and Amsterdam to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oracle and Amazon mud-slinging shows no signs of slowing down. 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