Anyone have experience with Oracle Cloud and ease of moving away?
This benchmark seems to recommend Oracle Cloud, but I’ve heard that Oracle has historically used aggressive licenses and legal terms to keep customers locked-in.
Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
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#12GCP (near the top) 3 years reserved 16 ARM cores + 120 GB costs + 1TB local SSD costs > $1k/month. It does not even match the specs of a Ryzen AI 395 Framework miniPC that goes for ~$4k AFAIK.
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#13Genoa was a big leap from Milan. Turin is a huge leap again. AMD really is doing spectacularly well at the moment. Kudos to Lisa Su and the team.
> Kudos to Lisa Su and the team. They're a typical hardware maker unable to focus on software, which is why NVIDIA is now a multi-trillion dollar corporation and AMD is "just" a few hundred billion. They've focused too much on CPUs and completely dropped the ball on AI and compute accelerators. It's especially sad considering that the MI300 and related accelerators on paper are competitive with NVIDIA hardware, it's…
Don’t really care.
We were stuck with Intel, its nice that we have better CPUs.
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#14Anyone have experience with Oracle Cloud and ease of moving away? This benchmark seems to recommend Oracle Cloud, but I’ve heard that Oracle has historically used aggressive licenses and legal terms to keep customers locked-in.
Everytime i have to login to oracle cloud i strongly wish i was not logging into oracle cloud...
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#15You can extract a lot of value from bare-metal servers from Hetzner but you need to put some effort initially to get them going. That being said, it is not really that difficult. And, frankly, it a lot more fun.
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#16You can't compare VPS with VMs from major cloud provider, VPS don't offer anything beside basic compute.
Also virtualization from cloud provider is way better because they have custom hardware and software so you don't suffer from noisy neighbours for example.
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#17It's ironic to see Oracle as a value play, but you couldn't bank on that indefinitely.
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#18Anyone have experience with Oracle Cloud and ease of moving away? This benchmark seems to recommend Oracle Cloud, but I’ve heard that Oracle has historically used aggressive licenses and legal terms to keep customers locked-in.
I wrote the article. I would NEVER tell anyone to use Oracle, as the vendor lock in and strong-arming and pricing is ridiculous. That said, I am hosting small projects on Oracle Cloud, due to the super low cost. I can just move them whenever they decide to be naughty, I am not using an oracle DB or anything proprietary, just linux VMs with my own mysql setup.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are so many articles like these: "We Moved from AWS to Hetzner. Cut Costs 89%. Here’s the Catch." https://medium.com/lets-code-future/we-moved-from-aws-to-het...
You just linked AI slop.
You mean the image? The text does not sound like AI at all IMHO.
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#20I just ran some massive tests on our own CI. I use AMD Turin for this on gcp, which was noted as one of the fastest ones in the article.
The most insane part here is that the AMD EPYC 4565p can beat the turin's used on the cloud providers, by as much as 2x in the single core.
Our tests took 2 minutes on GCP, 1 minute flat on the 4565p with its boost to 5.1ghz holding steady vs only 4.1ghz on the gcp ones.
GCP charges $130 a month for 8vcpus. ALSO this is for SPOT that can be killed at any moment.
My 4565p is a $500 cpu... 32 vcpus... racked in a datacenter. The machine cost under 2k.
i am trying hard to convince more people to rack themselves especially for CI actions. The cloud provider charging $130 / mo for 3x less vcpus you break even in a couple months, it doesn't matter if it dies a few months later. On top of that you're getting full dedicated and 2x the perf. Anyways... glad to see I chose the right cpu type for gcloud even though nothing comes close to the cost / perf of self racking