
AWS vs. Oracle Cloud: Pricing
Amazon vs. Oracle Cloud: Virtual Machine Pricing
This is the second of a 4-post series comparing Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs. Oracle Cloud. In this post, we look at the prices for virtual machines at each vendor.Calculating Cloud Pricing: No Easy Fete
Calculating how much Amazon cloud services cost is so difficult that one person even wrote a web site to try to provide an accurate estimate algorithm. He did that, “Because it’s frustrating to compare instances using Amazon’s own instance type, pricing, and other pages.” This data is crowd sourced and scraped from different Amazon screens. Oracle’s pricing is just as complex, if not more so. Prices are shown on their web site. But you have to call them because they show the prices as a function of CPU, not memory. Obviously the price is going to vary by memory too. But after reaching out to Oracle sales multiple times we were unable to confirm that price varies by memory. Instead they said you can add up to 15GB of memory to even CPU price unit (explained below).CPU Pricing Metrics
The two vendors use different metrics to size their CPU prices. Amazon uses a concept they call the ECU (elastic computing unit) to measure CPU usage. Oracle uses OCPU. One Oracle OCPU provides CPU capacity equivalent to one physical core of an Intel Xeon processor with hyper threading enabled. One Amazon ECU is “the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.” To make any kind of apples-to-apples we can say roughly that 1 Amazon ECU = 1 OCPU. Of course this is not 100% the same as Oracle does not give a clock speed benchmark. Pay close attention to the various additional charges incurred with both vendors. Amazon assesses surcharges for what they call bursting, which is when the CPU is pegged. In an actual trial run of Amazon, we were charged for something called Data Transfer, for which we did not sign up. When you rent virtual machines from Oracle, you are also required to pay for storage. Amazon does not sell server disk space separately; only disk array-type storage comes with an extra price. That said, here is the closest we can come up with on a per-CPU cycle price comparison for each vendor:
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