Cloud Computing: Tit for tat – Amazon offers free taste of Oracle database
October 2, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
The empire strikes back: Amazon Web Services adds the Oracle database — actually the whole RDS lineup — to its free usage tier. Anyone who doesn’t see Oracle’s new Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Amazon Web Services as potential competitors should probably look again.
Within a day of Oracle unveiling its all-Oracle Cloud plan, Amazon Web Services announced a “free taste” of Oracle’s database on its own cloud. Sort of.
On Monday, Amazon added its Relational Database Service (RDS) to its Free Usage Tier, according to the AWS blog. That means new customers can try out MySQL, the Oracle database or Microsoft SQL Server for free. Usage is restricted to a small “MicroDB” instance and one really important caveat is that Oracle database users have to bring their already bought-and-paid-for licence to the table. But the underlying Amazon infrastructure usage is free. More details are here…
The timing can’t be a coincidence coming as it does just after Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took to the stage Sunday night to outline the company’s all-Oracle-all-the-time Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering…
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