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Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by matt_heimer on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:20PM (#23013342)
Most cloud providers, Oracle included, have an S3 compatible object storage API - https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Object/Task...

Even the few that don't, you can use something like Minio.

I wouldn't consider S3 something that requires lock in.

Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by skuhn on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:44PM (#23014729)
Imagine migrating 100 PB from S3 to Oracle's object store. First of all, the egress fee will cost you $5,000,000 (no joke). Second, it will take months.

Don't think your early stage startup will ever have that problem?

That's exactly what a lot of other people thought 5-10 years ago, and now they're stuck in S3 which means they need to use EC2 to manipulate that data which means they may as well put it all in AWS because egress fees will eat their lunch.

Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by 1stranger on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:25PM (#23014977)
At that scale you're talking about millions in storage cost a month so I'm not sure $5 million is that scary.

Also for that amount of data it'd be faster to transfer as a stationwagon full of backup tapes (https://aws.amazon.com/snowball).

Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by skuhn on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:49AM (#23015500)
100PB would be $2.1 million per month. You're right that it is a similar order of magnitude of the egress fee.

That still means to exit AWS you have to add 2.5 months of opex to your budget, which will weigh against the perceived benefits of relocating the service out of AWS. That isn't an accident on Amazon's part -- there is a business case why ingress to S3 is free and egress from S3 is not free.

There are also a lot of problems around paying both the old and new provider during the move, so if you aren't very careful you could wind up going from a $2.1 million monthly opex to $9.2 million until the project wraps up. And what projects end on time?

Snowball may speed up your timeframe and reduce costs, but 100PB still costs $3 million to move and you still need to go back and sweep up the data from S3 once you've verified the data is complete.

Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by matt_heimer on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:05AM (#23015229)
For 100PB they actually have a semi-truck option https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by blasteye on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:48AM (#23015490)
That's with list price. I've helped with a migration larger than that, and was less than your 5mil number.

People forget that when you talk about customers spending 100+ mil/year they get heavy discounts on many of the SKUs.

Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by skuhn on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @01:09AM (#23015596)
You're right, AWS does heavily discount at this price point (as do other providers).

Egress fees on the order of 40-50% off list are possible in my experience.

Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by blasteye on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:23AM (#23018794)
It’s even greater than the 40-50% off his 5mil number if using dx links.

Dx list with 100 PiB is 2 million. Add in discounts and you’re at much less than 1 mil total

Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by alfalfasprout on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:21AM (#23015322)
This is hilarious considering Oracle is suing Google in SCOTUS over usage of public Java APIs...
Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by raverbashing on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:15AM (#23015990)
Another reason to not work with them.
Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic... by ram_rar on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:30PM (#23013426)
I agree, but my point being the more tightly your infra is coupled with cloud services. The harder it gets to migrate. aws lambda would be a better example.