Nothing to see here - move along.
No comments - OK move along then - so much for pent up interest.
Oracle has flicked the switch on everything-as-a-service in Australia. Big Red has offered software-as-a-service in Australia since 2012. Yesterday it turned on infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service (IaaS and PaaS) too, splashing down its servers in a third-party bit barn rather than build its own. HPE adopted …
I did a trial of the Oracle DBaaS and JCS (Java Cloud Services) in early January.
UI is nicer and more intuitive than AWS, but I had a hell of a time actually getting it to work - took me almost ten days to get a database instance installed and started with intervention from multiple levels of support (after escalation through personal contacts that "normal users" would not have had). Then another 3 working days to get a JCS instance to install.
I was assured that I had experienced the "perfect storm" of routing issues between VLANs, a botched UI update, some firewall rule issues, and had exposed a bug in the IP addressing reservation system. Maybe it was a series of unfortunate coincidences, but I know I could have stood up the same platforms on AWS in less than an hour.
Even though we are an Oracle partner (hence anon) we deployed the 300+ VMs we are standing up for a client on a different IaaS platform and I can't really say I'll be recommending Oracle Cloud to my customers based on personal experience.