Amazon's cloud computing division, AWS, has announced that it has decided to use its own databases instead of Oracle's. The company has finally disabled its latest Oracle database.
AWS has successfully transferred 75 petabytes of internal data from nearly 7.500 Oracle databases to its own service.
In a blog post, AWS's Jeff Barr explained that the database migration is now complete after several years of work, stating:
"Today, I would like to talk to you about an internal database migration effort of this type that has just ended after several years of work. Over the years, we have found that we spend far too much time managing and scaling thousands legacy Oracle databases Rather than focus on high-value differentiated work, our database administrators spent a lot of time simply leaving the lights on as transaction rates rose and the total amount of data stored increased. This included time spent managing complex and inefficient hardware provisioning, license management, and many other issues that are now better managed by modern, managed database services. "
While most of Amazon's consumer activities have been relocated from Oracle databases, some third-party applications closely related to Oracle have not been migrated.
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Amazon has been working on releasing Oracle databases for several years, but due to the size of their projects, this task was long and difficult.
More than 100 consumer services have been moved to AWS databases, including many customer-facing tools such as Alexa, Amazon Prime, Twitch, and more. AWS has also ported several of its internal tools, such as AdTech, its external payment processing system, and your order, to its own databases.
Each team in the company has moved an Oracle database to an AWS database service, such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Redshift. The company also revealed that each group was allowed to choose the service of their choice based on their own needs and requirements.
If this decision bodes well for AWS, Oracle is losing a big customer, and Amazon's departure could encourage other companies to do the same.
Via TechCrunch