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0 pointslenticular7y ago0 comments

None that can match the maturity or performance of AWS. I always hear really terrible things about Oracle and IBM.

edit: Mostly I've heard it just generally is not great, plus you have to deal with typical Oracle badness.

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tmd837y ago· 3 in thread

Do you have specifics to share about Oracle clouds. That's the one you hear the least about publicly I think. You at least can get some ideas of the problems of AWS, GCE and Azure.

jstanley7y ago

Oracle offer quite a compelling free trial.

I got a VM for 30 days with 16 gigabytes (!) of RAM and it didn't cost me a penny. In fact, the machine continued working for a few months after the trial ended, which I thought was very generous. They just blocked port 80 and 443 inbound.

They even have a high-touch sales process where a real person sends you emails and replies when you send them questions. Imagine that at AWS!

I was actually tempted to keep paying for the VM from Oracle, but the high-touch sales person literally could not tell me how much it was going to cost. She could point me towards the price calculator page, but the VM type I had been given in my free trial did not exist in their price calculator. I asked for just a simple number: how much is this going to cost me per month? She could not give me an answer. So I didn't buy it. I still have no idea whether it would have been a good deal or not.

scarface747y ago

They even have a high-touch sales process where a real person sends you emails and replies when you send them questions. Imagine that at AWS!

You haven’t had the joy of having a business support plan from AWS. You can start a chat and get immediate help. They will do a screen share with you if necessary. I have had a 100% success with them. This is everything from CloudFormstion issues, S3 cross account permissions with CodeBuild/CodePipeline, API gateway/Route53 set up issues, IAM permissions to read and write from S3 to Aurora/Redshift, a best practices question with DynamoDB/Dax with Python, and a Route 53/Security group/autoscale group/load balancer issue.

All of these issues were because of my lack of knowledge on the platform.

outworlder7y ago

> They even have a high-touch sales process where a real person sends you emails and replies when you send them questions. Imagine that at AWS!

The do that too once you are big enough.

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derefr7y ago· 1 in thread

"IBM Cloud" is just the rebranded name of Softlayer (which was acquired.) They're decent for managed bare-metal hosting.

LoSboccacc7y ago

yeah it's the offering on top that's impossible to use. I mean once you set it up it works like everybody else does, but finding how to access those managed services beyond vm and hosted is exceptionally convoluted

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