Amazon’s consumer business fully sheds Oracle, moves on AWS

Seattle: In what could give the ongoing bitter war between Cloud majors Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) a rest, Amazon has announced it has completely shed legacy Oracle databases and its entire consumer business is now running on its own AWS databases.
“I am happy to report that this database migration effort is now complete. Amazon’s consumer business just turned off its final Oracle database (some third-party applications are tightly bound to Oracle and were not migrated),” Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist for AWS, Amazon’s Cloud computing arm announced late Monday.
The company said it migrated 75 petabytes (one PB is 1,000 terabytes) of internal data stored in nearly 7,500 Oracle databases to multiple AWS database services, including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and Amazon Redshift.
“The migrations were accomplished with little or no downtime and covered 100 percent of our proprietary systems. This includes complex purchasing, catalog management, order fulfillment, accounting, and video streaming workloads,” Barr informed.
Top Oracle and AWS executives have been sparring over Amazon’s abandonment of Oracle databases in its internal operations for some time.
AWS CEO Andy Jassy in November said that Amazon will take off all its workloads from Oracle databases by the end of 2019 and put those on its own database offerings.