How to Respond to Oracle’s Arguments on Virtual CPUs on AWS EC2 or RDS?

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Executive Summary

  • Oracle makes a curious argument that virtual CPUs on AWS EC2 or RDS.
  • How valid is this argument against the cloud from Oracle?

Introduction

Oracle argues that if the number of vCPUs or virtual CPUs on Amazon EC2 or RDS is reduced, The licenses to be purchased should be the total of CPUs that could have been used.

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  • This is published by a research entity, not some dishonest entity that is part of the Oracle ecosystem. 
  • Second, no one paid for this article to be written, and it is not pretending to inform you while being rigged to sell you software or consulting services. Unlike nearly every other article you will find from Google on this topic, it has had no input from any company's marketing or sales department. As you are reading this article, consider how rare this is. The vast majority of information on the Internet on Oracle is provided by Oracle, which is filled with false claims and sleazy consulting companies and SAP consultants who will tell any lie for personal benefit. Furthermore, Oracle pays off all IT analysts -- who have the same concern for accuracy as Oracle. Not one of these entities will disclose their pro-Oracle financial bias to their readers. 
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This is completely false.

The number of licenses to be purchased is the number of CPUs running, as observed by House of Brick. Oracle is well known for merely asserting additional licenses are needed, and they lose nothing by making the assertion. It is the customer’s job to figure out if Oracle is telling the truth.