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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by dijit on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:13AM (#18978763)
What about running oracle on a google instance with a regional disk? Sure, it's not as sexy as a managed service but functionally it would be very similar.
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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by ticmasta on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:56AM (#18979273)
Not only is it not sexy, it's probably the most work. You're now administering the server, storage & the database; you're the DBA for your Oracle instance and databases; Oracle loves to hammer this scenario for licensing (they'd rather you pay for their "cloud") and paying a premium for the underlying hardware that needs to managed remotely.

I can understand why this is a no-go for the GP.

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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by dijit on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:46AM (#18979853)
Yeah, I understand it too; We're currently being squeezed by MS licensing in GCP (but it's basically free in Azure!).

This is the cost of lock-in.

Personally I'd rather have the expertise on staff than pay oracle (and microsoft) for this shitty behaviour.

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