AWS boss claims consumer division has switched off Oracle data warehouse
Amazon’s consumer business has switched off its Oracle data warehouse and will be almost Big Red-free by Christmas – at least according to AWS boss Andy Jassy.
The claims – made over Twitter, so it must be true – were then doubled down on by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said that the database was one of the largest in the world, adding “RIP”.
It’s the latest in a long-running war of words between the rival tech giants that normally sees Oracle CTO Larry Ellison smack-talking the online marketplace-cum-cloud vendor.
Ellison’s attacks usually take one of two forms: they either choose the right figures to show that Oracle’s performance trounces that of AWS, or needle his rival for still running Oracle’s databases.
