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Does somebody actually see use cases for using Oracle RDS with new applications? Or is this mainly to support migrating existing apps to the AWS platform.
by kennu 16y ago
Does somebody actually see use cases for using Oracle RDS with new applications? Or is this mainly to support migrating existing apps to the AWS platform.
- buro9 16y agoMigrating. There's a lot of companies with licenses and who have been scaling vertically and are approaching their max. The traditional ROI race means that they did their planning to minimise their licensing costs whilst maximising their hardware usage... basically companies plan for just what they need and barely leave themselves 10% for growth. What then happens is that when they look like they're going to exceed their 10% spare capacity, they're faced with disproportionally high costs to continue to scale vertically by adding RAM or CPU when the box may already be maxed or not be able to meet demands. Where this helps, is that Amazon can extend your LAN over a VPN to include an Oracle instance hosted by them. They can take away your capex and turn it into an opex in which you weren't paying for unused spare capacity. They can also liberate you from that expensive capex cycle. It's a good thing, but I doubt anyone is going to be building new software this way, especially amongst the HN crowd (unless this really is 1998/1999 again).
- cafard 16y agoOracle's list price for enterprise edition is $47.5K/cpu. These days it is not so easy to find a hardware upgrade that competes with that in price...
- buro9 16y agoNo-one pays the list price. At least, no-one I ever worked with paid the list price and I've worked with a lot of companies that use Oracle.