alt Hacker NewsAnyone have experience with Oracle Cloud and ease of moving away?
This benchmark seems to recommend Oracle Cloud, but I’ve heard that Oracle has historically used aggressive licenses and legal terms to keep customers locked-in.
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We moved about 400 VMs across AWS and GCP to Oracle Cloud spead across 4 regions. Our approach was to first move our applications to rely only on Load Balancers, Block/Object Storage and Compute from the cloud. No RDS, BigQuery etc. This required a slight increase in SREs/DevOps resources.
Once we did this, the move was fairly easy (the exception being having to write our own auto-scaling logic as the built-in one is very limited). Overall we reduced our cloud spend (even accounting for the additional staff) by about 40%. Bandwidth is practically free and you are not limited to specific combos of CPU/RAM (so you can easily provision something with 7 cores and 9 GB RAM). Another big factor for us was that compute costs in OCI don't vary by region.
I will not recommend using any other managed services from OCI besides the basics (we tried some and they are not very reliable). We've seen minor issues in Networking periodically (Private DNS, LBs or interconnectivity between compute instances), but overall I would say the switch has been worth it.
I've been using it professionally for years.
As long as you don't use their exclusive DBaaS, moving away is easier than from other places, as egress traffic is free.
The user experience though, stuff of nightmares...
I signed up for an Oracle Cloud trial. They closed my trial a few days later and shut down my one trial VM without warning.
Weirdly they didn’t allow me to add payment info to continue. Even weirder their sales people kept contacting me asking me to come back. When I explained the situation they all tried to fix it and then went radio silent until the next sales rep came along to try to convince me to stay.
I searched Reddit at the time and a lot of other people had the same experience. A lot of other people were bragging about abusing their free tier and trials without consequences. I still don’t know how they decided to permanently close my account (without informing the sales team)
I used their free tier.
The account creation process was really confusing, and they kept turning off my instance because usage was not high enough.
It seemed quited oudated/confusing to use last time I tried it a few years ago.
Everytime i have to login to oracle cloud i strongly wish i was not logging into oracle cloud...
They'll find one way or another to laugh all the way to the bank, that is for sure.
I wrote the article. I would NEVER tell anyone to use Oracle, as the vendor lock in and strong-arming and pricing is ridiculous. That said, I am hosting small projects on Oracle Cloud, due to the super low cost. I can just move them whenever they decide to be naughty, I am not using an oracle DB or anything proprietary, just linux VMs with my own mysql setup.