The House of Brick Podcast is a series of conversations with important partners and clients. The intent of the podcast is to share, educate and advise listeners on best practices for business-critical database platforms. From Oracle licensing to database cloud migrations, real-world options are discussed, assessed and recommended. Companies looking to optimize their business systems, including reducing costs and improving performance, would benefit from topics such as:
- Being prepared for a potential Oracle or Microsoft audit
- Database licensing on premise vs the cloud
- License management for Oracle & SQL Server
- Migrating Oracle to an alternative database platform
- High availability & disaster recovery best practices
- Virtualization of business-critical systems & database platforms
- And, other Oracle & SQL Server deployment & license management topics
In this podcast, the conversation focuses on the common Oracle/AWS FUD that gets customers confused about their deployment options. The guests help to address each FUD topic in turn – please see links to blogs and other references items below.
Top Oracle FUD topics covered include:
- CLOUD POLICY – You must use the Oracle Cloud Policy to license Oracle in AWS
- COST: It will cost twice as much to run Oracle on AWS
- APP HOSTING: Why RDS Oracle LI vs BYOL if you’re hosting applications
- RAC WORKLOADS: You have no way to run your Oracle RAC workloads in AWS
- SUPPORT: Your Oracle deployment will not be supported on AWS
- ORACLE EE vs SE: You need Enterprise Edition in AWS if you used EE on prem
- ULA FOR AWS: An Oracle ULA is the best way to license Oracle in AWS
- ODA & EXA: Oracle ODA & Exadata workloads don’t perform well in AWS
- PERFORMANCE: Oracle workloads will not perform well on AWS
- OCI vs AWS: OCI is a better cloud for Oracle workloads than AWS
Podcast guests include:
Nick Walter, House of Brick CTO, AWS Solutions Architect Professional & AWS Data Hero
Mike Stone, Lead Oracle Architect, AWS Solution Architect Professional & License Consultant
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Oracle Architect & License Consultant,
Joe Grant, Principal Oracle Architect & AWS Solutions Architect Professional
Reference items:
BLOG: Oracle FUDbusting – Who You Gonna Call?
BLOG: Oracle’s New Sales Tactic – SaaS Hosting Compliance
BLOG: Oracle Proprietary Application Hosting Dangers in AWS RDS
BLOG: Oracle Standard Edition in the Cloud
BLOG: Oracle RAC Alternatives in AWS
BLOG: The “Why OCI vs AWS” Marketing Piece
BLOG: Migrating Oracle Database Appliance & Exadata workloads to AWS
BLOG: Oracle Licensing for AWS 101 – Editions, Metrics, and the Cloud Policy
BLOG: Oracle Cloud Sales Fueled By Oracle Audits – Court Certifies Class Action
BLOG: Oracle Cloud Licensing Policy – December 2021 Update
OFFERING: Oracle/AWS Quick Start – “The FUDbuster”
WHITE PAPER: Overcoming Oracle Traps with AWS
