In our experience, organizations want the tangible benefits of the cloud model while meeting specific requirements for data sovereignty, security compliance, and low latency. However, they also want cloud services provided and fully managed by the vendor, aligned to a Pay As You Go model without large, upfront capital expenditure (CAPEX). Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, a unique hybrid cloud offering bringing 100% of Oracle’s public cloud services to data centers, has consistently met these requirements for organizations around the world, such as Australian Data Centres, Oman ICT, and Nomura Research Institute.
As more customers migrate critical enterprise applications and databases to Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, they expect a high level of scalability, performance, and economic benefit. They also want these migrations without disruptions or changes to familiar software and IT processes. Learn how Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer meets user requirements in these areas better than AWS Outposts.
Run databases at high scalability
Oracle Autonomous Databases can scale to many times the compute and storage capacity of AWS Outposts, scaling up to 400 CPU cores (OCPUs) when deployed on Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. The size of the database can be as large as 479 TB. Databases running on AWS Outposts are limited to 96 vCPUs (48 CPU cores) and 64 TB. Want to change CPU resources on Relational Database Service (RDS) on Outposts? You need to reboot their database instance for the change to take effect.
With such high scalability, users of Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer aren’t constrained to creating and maintaining smaller databases. They also avoid the burden of connecting multiple smaller databases. Setting security is less cumbersome because customers don’t have to accommodate joins across databases. Finally, you have no downtime when changing CPU and storage resources because autoscaling is enabled by default when you create an Autonomous Database instance on Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer.
The highest performance for Oracle workloads
Oracle workloads achieve high performance when running on Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. Using Exadata as a database cloud service, it delivers an industry-leading 12 million read IOPS and 5.6 million write IOPS. AWS hasn’t published specific IOPS figures for Outposts, stating, “Typical values for IOPS range from zero to tens of thousands per second.” The high IOPS of Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer accelerate database performance and remove transaction backlog.
Run databases at maximum availability
Customers of Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer can run Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC). With Oracle RAC, customers run one Oracle database across several servers to maximize availability. User sessions connecting to Oracle RAC instances can failover and safely replay changes during outages without any changes to end-user applications. The impact of the outages is hidden from users. AWS Outposts, on the other hand, has no similar capabilities to Oracle RAC.
Option to run Oracle Databases, fully managed in your data center
Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer gives users the option to run fully managed databases in their data centers. A fully managed database—storage, data, and compute services—is completely administered by the cloud provider, instead of by the customer’s IT staff. This management frees the customer from the burden of managing their own cloud database resources. Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customers offers fully managed services for Oracle Database service, including bare metal and virtual machine (VM) database systems, Oracle Exadata systems, and Autonomous Databases. Amazon RDS on Outposts doesn’t support Oracle Database.
Migrate Oracle databases and applications with confidence
Customers migrate Oracle workloads to Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to increase operational efficiency and meet data residency requirements. They want to run these migrations without changing familiar software and to protect the investment in software licenses that they already own. Oracle makes it easy to migrate Oracle applications and databases. Through Universal Credits and bring-your-own-license to platform-as-a-service (BYOL2PaaS), Oracle helps customers bring their existing Oracle software licenses to Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. AWS doesn’t offer Universal Credits or BYOL2PaaS for Oracle software. Automation tools, such as Oracle EBS Cloud Manager and PeopleSoft Cloud Manager, aren’t available on AWS Outposts.
Customer success
Australian Data Centres (ADC), based in Canberra, Australia, provides highly sophisticated services to government and commercial clients. ADC operates a traditional, high-security data center, and this market changed dramatically with the influx of public cloud providers. To remain relevant to its clients, including Australian federal agencies, the company enabled the adoption of cloud services through its use of Oracle Dedicated Region and partnerships with other Australian companies. It now provides sovereign hosted services to the Australian government.
According to Robert Kelly, CEO of Australian Data Centres, “There was no other [cloud] provider out there that provided the range of services that comes with Oracle Dedicated Region.”
Learn more about Australian Data Centres and Oracle Dedicated Region in Customer Spotlight: Australian Data Centres.
Forward perspective
Oracle is committed to enabling customers with the most competitive cloud solution offerings in support of their business requirements and modernization path forward. For our next post in the blog series, we spotlight how Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer helps customers migrate Oracle workloads better than AWS Outposts.
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