Oracle Cloud Announcement (September 2017)
The bottom line: Oracle are inventing aggressively on PaaS and starting to neglect the IaaS. They are doing it by: - Reducing price of the PaaS. - More automation to reduce dramatically the TCO (migration to cloud, patches, upgrades, tuning) - Higher performance. - Simpler pricing and contract (a pool of cloud cedits you can use for anything) - New autonomous database will be commercial soon. - You can bring your own license. And again Oracle claim that their cloud is faster than Amazon for database with much lower price.