Amazon's Multiyear Plan to Dump Oracle Is Complete
E-commerce and cloud computing behemoth Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been working for years to free itself from the yoke of Oracle's (NYSE: ORCL) ubiquitous database software. A vast array of Amazon's consumer services were once powered by the market leading database. No more.
In a blog post last week, Amazon announced that its consumer business had turned off its final Oracle database. This was a multiyear effort involving 7,500 Oracle databases and 75 petabytes of data. Amazon services like Alexa, Prime Video, Kindle, Audible, and Twitch, as well as a wide variety of internal systems, are now running on various database services available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
This sounds like bad news for Oracle. Amazon touted a 60% cost savings by switching away from Oracle, even with its discounted rates, as well as a 40% decrease in latency for consumer-facing applications and a 70% reduction in database administrative overhead. That's quite the indictment of Oracle's signature product.
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