Sure, and if you need 1 or 2 TB of RAM, Oracle won't be able to help, and that's a much harder parameter to work around... Anyway, my point was that it didn't

Sure, and if you need 1 or 2 TB of RAM, Oracle won't be able to help, and that's a much harder parameter to work around... Anyway, my point was that it didn't, IMHO, "easily mop the floor with AWS on price/performance ratio".