Amazon is getting quite close to moving away from Oracle. Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon Web Services, tweeted last week regarding turning off the Oracle data warehouse and moving to RedShift. Jassy’s recent tweet seems to be a response to Oracle’s CTO, Larry Ellison’s constant taunts and punch lines.
In latest episode of "uh huh, keep talkin' Larry," Amazon’s Consumer business turned off its Oracle data warehouse Nov 1 and moved to Redshift. By end of 2018, they'll have 88% of their Oracle DBs (and 97% of critical system DBs) moved to Aurora and DynamoDB. #DBFreedom
— Andy Jassy (@ajassy) November 9, 2018
The news about Amazon making its shift from Oracle stirred up in January this year. This was followed by the CNBC report this August which talked about Amazon’s plans to move from Oracle by 2020. As per the report, Amazon had already started to migrate most of its infrastructure internally to Amazon Web services.
The process to move from Oracle, however, has been a bit harder than expected for Amazon. It faced an outage in one of its biggest warehouses on Prime Day (one of the Amazon’s biggest sales day in a year), last month, as reported by CNBC. The major cause of the outage was Amazon’s migration from Oracle’s database to its own technology, Aurora PostgreSQL.
Moreover, Amazon and Oracle have had regular word battles in recent years over the performance of their database software and cloud tools. For instance, Larry Ellison, CTO, Oracle, slammed Amazon as he said, “Let me tell you an interesting fact: Amazon does not use [Amazon web services] to run their business. Amazon runs their entire business on top of Oracle, on top of the Oracle database. They have been unable to migrate to AWS because it’s not good enough.”
Larry Ellison also slammed Amazon during Oracle OpenWorld conference last year saying, “Oracle’s services are just plain better than AWS” and how Amazon is “one of the biggest Oracle users on Planet Earth”.
“Amazon’s Oracle data warehouse was one of the largest (if not THE largest) in the world. RIP. We have moved on to newer, faster, more reliable, more agile, more versatile technology at more lower cost and higher scale. #AWS Redshift FTW.” tweeted Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.
Public reaction to this decision by Amazon has been largely positive with people supporting Amazon’s decision to migrate from Oracle:
Aurora is a superior architecture and product. I say that as someone who has done a massive migration to Aurora from MySQL and helped operate one of the biggest Oracle RAC clusters in e-commerce
— eonnen (@eonnen) November 10, 2018
Really “Uh Uh Larry, Keep Talking”. Love that line. Bravo guys.
— Adams Adebayo Aliu (@adamuaa) November 10, 2018
I would have guessed this was done long ago. Congrats to Redshift, Aurora and DynamoDB teams.
— Amit Nayar (@nayar_amit) November 10, 2018
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