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Amazon Web Services vs Oracle Cloud

Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud offer 9 of the 12 services in the site's service map. This page lines them up one service at a time, says where one has no equivalent and why, and shows what the example workloads cost on each at public on-demand list prices.

Service by service

Each row is one job in the example workloads. The service shown is the closest equivalent the map has chosen for that cloud; where there is none, the row says so and gives the reason. Equivalence is chosen carefully: services are compared only when they bill in comparable ways.

Amazon Web Services vs Oracle Cloud, service by service
Job	Amazon Web Services	Oracle Cloud
IoT device gateway	AWS IoT Core	OCI Internet of Things Platform
Event streaming	Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (on-demand)	OCI Streaming
Stream processing	Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink	Oracle Stream Analytics (OCI GoldenGate)
Time-series database	Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB	Not offered Oracle has no managed time-series database. The nearest options, Autonomous Database and NoSQL Database, are general-purpose and are priced and sized differently.
Object storage	Amazon S3 Standard	OCI Object Storage (Standard)
General-purpose VM	Amazon EC2 (M6i)	OCI Compute (VM.Standard.E5.Flex)
Edge runtime	AWS IoT Greengrass	Not offered Oracle has no managed IoT edge runtime. Roving Edge Infrastructure is rugged hardware for disconnected sites, not software for gateways.
Managed PostgreSQL	Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL (M6i, gp3)	OCI Database with PostgreSQL
HTTP load balancer	Application Load Balancer	OCI Flexible Load Balancer
Internet data transfer	AWS data transfer out	OCI outbound data transfer
SQL on the data lake	Amazon Athena	Not offered Oracle has no SQL service that bills per amount of data scanned. Autonomous AI Lakehouse can query object storage, but it is billed per ECPU-hour while the database runs, which is a different model from pay-per-scan, so the two are not compared.
Batch data transform	AWS Glue ETL jobs	OCI Data Integration

Where they differ

Both offer a service for 9 of 12 jobs.
Amazon Web Services offers Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB for "Time-series database"; Oracle Cloud has no equivalent in the map. Oracle has no managed time-series database. The nearest options, Autonomous Database and NoSQL Database, are general-purpose and are priced and sized differently.
Amazon Web Services offers AWS IoT Greengrass for "Edge runtime"; Oracle Cloud has no equivalent in the map. Oracle has no managed IoT edge runtime. Roving Edge Infrastructure is rugged hardware for disconnected sites, not software for gateways.
Amazon Web Services offers Amazon Athena for "SQL on the data lake"; Oracle Cloud has no equivalent in the map. Oracle has no SQL service that bills per amount of data scanned. Autonomous AI Lakehouse can query object storage, but it is billed per ECPU-hour while the database runs, which is a different model from pay-per-scan, so the two are not compared.
Oracle Cloud: IoT device gateway (can't be sized) is offered, but the vendor publishes too little to size it from the workload inputs.

Example workload totals

Monthly totals for the site's example factories, from the same calculation as the estimator, at Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud on-demand list prices in USD, as of 2 Nov 2026. A total is marked incomplete when a cloud lacks a service or a price for the workload; an incomplete total is partial, is not comparable, and is never called the lower one.

Amazon Web Services vs Oracle Cloud, example workload totals
Example	Region	Amazon Web Services	Oracle Cloud	Lower complete total
Small factory: 100 devices	India (Mumbai / Pune)	$547	$731 (incomplete)	Not comparable
Small factory: 100 devices	US East (Virginia / S. Carolina)	$482	$731 (incomplete)	Not comparable
Mid-size plant: 1,000 devices	India (Mumbai / Pune)	$1,024	$802 (incomplete)	Not comparable
Mid-size plant: 1,000 devices	US East (Virginia / S. Carolina)	$925	$802 (incomplete)	Not comparable
Multi-site: 10,000 devices	India (Mumbai / Pune)	$5,431	$1,531 (incomplete)	Not comparable
Multi-site: 10,000 devices	US East (Virginia / S. Carolina)	$4,991	$1,531 (incomplete)	Not comparable

Regions compared

India (Mumbai / Pune): Amazon Web Services ap-south-1, Oracle Cloud ap-mumbai-1.
US East (Virginia / S. Carolina): Amazon Web Services us-east-1, Oracle Cloud us-ashburn-1.

Price catalog

Amazon Web Services has 3,007 SKUs in the price catalog. Oracle Cloud is not in the catalog yet. Learn more on the Amazon Web Services and Oracle Cloud pages, or estimate your own workload.

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