Oracle offers its MySQL HeatWave database and analytics on Amazon’s cloud

(Corrects to make clear within the third paragraph that clients can use the service in AWS)

(Reuters) -Oracle Corp has began to supply MySQL HeatWave, its cloud database service for transactions, analytics and machine studying, on Amazon’s AWS cloud, permitting clients whose information is already parked there to make use of the service, the U.S. firm stated on Monday.

The brand new providing shouldn’t be by a partnership with Amazon.com Inc which has its personal vary of database providers that Oracle competes with, stated Edward Screven, chief company architect of Oracle. He stated Oracle does have a partnership with Microsoft Corp and might be providing this database platform on the Azure cloud sooner or later.

Screven stated clients who’ve parked their information on AWS previously would have needed to pay costly charges to maneuver that information to Oracle’s cloud to make use of the MySQL HeatWave service.

“We truly run MySQL HeatWave on Amazon infrastructure. So we have carried out a whole lot of work to port and tune MySQL HeatWave to the Amazon atmosphere,” he stated.

(Reporting by Jane Lanhee Lee; Enhancing by Josie Kao)