Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain
Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side
Oracle has announced the general availability of its Exadata service on AWS Database@AWS, a year after the service went live for lower-level databases. The new offering allows customers to specify their compute and storage capacity needs, spreading databases across pooled storage servers for high performance and availability. However, Oracle licensing and commercial experts have cautioned that there are still trade-offs when adopting the service, with compute and storage costs being higher than traditional RDS/EC2 options and capacity not being as granular.
Despite these challenges, Exascale offerings may make the Oracle Database@AWS service more attractive for organizations with smaller fleets of Oracle databases.
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