> Customers regularly report cost savings of 90% by switching from Oracle to AWS. How the hell is Oracle still able to charge so much? Earlier this year we wer

> Customers regularly report cost savings of 90% by switching from Oracle to AWS. How the hell is Oracle still able to charge so much? Earlier this year we were looking to spin up a temporary development instance of Oracle DB for a proof-of-concept project, but the license alone was over $50k. People were already pissed about them adding licensing costs to Java, so this kicked off an effort to start migrating to a modern tech stack.