Amazon's Consumer Business Has Turned Off Its Oracle Data Warehouse (bloomberg.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. has taken another step toward eliminating software from Oracle Corp. that has long helped the e-commerce giant run its retail business. An executive with Amazon's cloud-computing unit hit back at Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, who ridiculed the internet giant as recently as last month for relying on Oracle databases to track transactions and store information, even though Amazon sells competing software, including Redshift, Aurora and DynamoDB. Amazon's effort to end its use of Oracle's products has made new progress, Andy Jassy, the chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services, tweeted Friday. "In latest episode of 'uh huh, keep talkin' Larry,' Amazon's Consumer business turned off its Oracle data warehouse Nov. 1 and moved to Redshift," Jassy wrote. By the end of 2018, Amazon will stop using 88 percent of its Oracle databases, including 97 percent of its mission-critical databases, he added.

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Re: Hurrah

[c6gunner]

True. I wrote a couple reviews warning consumers against items which were obviously fraudulent; Amazon's response was to delete my reviews and send me an emailing warning that "repeated abuse will result in you no longer being able to post reviews". Apparently telling people that a "4k" camera isn't really 4k, and that a "2,000 watt power converter" won't handle more than 200 watts are both considered "abusive".