After AWS outage, Larry Ellison says Oracle’s cloud by no means ‘goes down’

Oracle’s cloud infrastructure service remains to be approach behind Amazon. However that does not hold Larry Ellison, Oracle’s billionaire co-founder, from taking each obtainable alternative to tout his cloud over the competitors.

On the finish of Oracle’s quarterly earnings convention name on Thursday, Ellison made a veiled swipe at Amazon Net Companies, which suffered a serious outage this week, taking down a large swath of internet sites and web providers and knocking out crucial instruments utilized by Amazon’s personal supply staff.

Ellison did not particularly reference the outage, however it would not take a lot studying between the traces to get his which means.

“Let me shut with a notice that I will paraphrase from a really giant telecommunications firm who makes use of our cloud and all the opposite three North American clouds — Google, Amazon and Microsoft,” Ellison mentioned. “And the notice mainly mentioned the one factor we have seen about Oracle, Oracle’s cloud, is that it by no means ever goes down. We won’t say that about any of the opposite clouds. We predict this can be a crucial differentiator.”

Oracle shares rose 11% in prolonged buying and selling on Thursday after the corporate reported better-than-expected earnings for the fiscal second quarter. Previous to the shut, the inventory was up 38% this 12 months, trouncing Amazon’s 7% acquire.

Taking a step again, Amazon has been the higher guess for a very long time, with AWS turning Oracle’s cloud infrastructure enterprise largely into an afterthought. Over the previous decade, Amazon shares are up 1,700%, whereas Oracle’s market cap has tripled. And within the newest quarter, income at AWS surged 39% to $16.1 billion. Oracle’s income within the quarter rose 6% to $10.4 billion.

In response to Synergy Analysis Group, AWS managed 33% of the worldwide cloud infrastructure market on the finish of the second quarter, adopted by Microsoft at 20% and Google at 10%. 4 different firms stand between Google and Oracle when it comes to market share.

That is by no means stopped Ellison up to now. Throughout an earnings name in 2016, Ellison instructed analysts that “We deal with the Oracle database a lot better than Amazon does.” He adopted up in 2018 by saying that Amazon will battle to get off of Oracle’s database, referring to a CNBC report that mentioned Amazon was trying to cease utilizing Oracle’s expertise. That very same 12 months, at Oracle’s large consumer convention, Ellison railed towards Amazon’s cloud safety.

Even previous to his closing remarks on Thursday, Ellison had some unflattering feedback for his bigger rival on the earnings name. In discussing the databases that Oracle helps in comparison with Amazon, Ellison mentioned Oracle’s expertise is superior, particularly in relation to the managed database MySQL.

“We’ve got MySQL, however our model of MySQL is a lot better than Amazon’s model of MySQL,” Ellison mentioned. “A lot sooner. I imply, greater than ten instances sooner.”

An AWS consultant didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

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