Oracle Wants to Challenge AWS in Cloud Computing

Oracle’s Larry Ellison declared in Oracle's OpenWorld conference that Amazon’s lead in cloud computing is over with the arrival of Oracle’s upgraded “second generation” Oracle Cloud. Ellison calls AWS’s cloud infrastructure as “slow first-generation cloud infrastructure”. Among other things, Oracle says its benchmark tests show that an Oracle database running on the Oracle Cloud performs up to 24 times faster than an Oracle database running on AWS.

Not all analysts buy into Oracle’s claims, saying that the company still lags behind competitors like AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce.

Amazon has emerged as a rival to Oracle, attracting Oracle’s database customers over to AWS.

Sources:

Larry Ellison says Oracle's new cloud will crush Amazon — but the rest of the world isn't so sure, http://nordic.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-oracle-cloud-amazon-web-services-2016-9/

Oracle Beats Amazon Web Services in Head-to-Head Cloud Database Comparison, https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/database-benchmarking-092016.html