Oracle’s cloud infrastructure service remains to be method behind Amazon. However that does not hold Larry Ellison, Oracle’s billionaire co-founder, from taking each obtainable alternative to tout his cloud over the competitors.

On the finish of Oracle’s quarterly earnings convention name on Thursday, Ellison made a veiled swipe at Amazon Net Providers, which suffered a major outage this week, taking down a large swath of internet sites and web companies and knocking out crucial instruments utilized by Amazon’s personal supply staff.

Ellison did not particularly reference the outage, however it does not take a lot studying between the traces to get his that means.

“Let me shut with a word that I will paraphrase from a really giant telecommunications firm who makes use of our cloud and all the opposite three North American clouds — Google, Amazon and Microsoft,” Ellison mentioned. “And the word principally mentioned the one factor we have seen about Oracle, Oracle’s cloud, is that it by no means ever goes down. We will not say that about any of the opposite clouds. We predict it is a crucial differentiator.”

Oracle shares rose 11% in prolonged buying and selling on Thursday after the corporate reported better-than-expected earnings for the fiscal second quarter. Previous to the shut, the inventory was up 38% this yr, trouncing Amazon’s 7% acquire.

Taking a step again, Amazon has been the higher wager for a very long time, with AWS turning Oracle’s cloud infrastructure enterprise largely into an afterthought. Over the previous decade, Amazon shares are up 1,700%, whereas Oracle’s market cap has tripled. And within the newest quarter, income at AWS surged 39% to $16.1 billion. Oracle’s income within the quarter rose 6% to $10.4 billion.

In response to Synergy Research Group, AWS managed 33% of the worldwide cloud infrastructure market on the finish of the second quarter, adopted by Microsoft at 20% and Google at 10%. 4 different corporations stand between Google and Oracle when it comes to market share.

That is by no means stopped Ellison up to now. Throughout an earnings call in 2016, Ellison informed analysts that “We deal with the Oracle database a lot better than Amazon does.” He followed up in 2018 by saying that Amazon will wrestle to get off of Oracle’s database, referring to a CNBC report that mentioned Amazon was looking to stop using Oracle’s technology. That very same yr, at Oracle’s large person convention, Ellison railed in opposition to Amazon’s cloud safety.

Even previous to his closing remarks on Thursday, Ellison had some unflattering feedback for his bigger rival on the earnings name. In discussing the databases that Oracle helps in comparison with Amazon, Ellison mentioned Oracle’s expertise is superior, particularly in terms of the managed database MySQL.

“We’ve MySQL, however our model of MySQL is a lot better than Amazon’s model of MySQL,” Ellison mentioned. “A lot quicker. I imply, greater than ten instances quicker.”

An AWS consultant didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

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