# Competitive Mapping: AWS → OCI
# Honest comparison — advantages AND disadvantages

service_mapping:
  compute:
    aws: "EC2"
    oci: "OCI Compute"
    oci_advantage:
      - "Consistent pricing (no per-second billing complexity)"
      - "Flex shapes — pay for exact OCPUs/memory needed"
      - "Dense I/O shapes with local NVMe included"
    aws_advantage:
      - "Broader instance family selection"
      - "Spot instances (wider availability than OCI Preemptible)"
      - "Graviton ecosystem maturity vs Ampere"
    notes: "OCI compute is generally 30-50% cheaper for equivalent configurations"

  kubernetes:
    aws: "EKS"
    oci: "OKE"
    oci_advantage:
      - "Free control plane (EKS charges $0.10/hr = ~$73/month)"
      - "Virtual Nodes (serverless) option"
    aws_advantage:
      - "Larger ecosystem (Fargate, App Mesh, more add-ons)"
      - "More community resources and tooling"

  database_oracle:
    aws: "RDS Oracle / Oracle on EC2"
    oci: "ADB-S / DBCS / ExaCS"
    oci_advantage:
      - "Autonomous Database — no equivalent in AWS"
      - "Exadata performance for Oracle workloads"
      - "BYOL pricing ~50-75% cheaper than AWS RDS Oracle"
      - "Native Oracle features (RAC, Data Guard, Advanced Compression)"
      - "Direct migration path with ZDM/DMS"
    aws_advantage:
      - "Multi-engine flexibility (same tooling for Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL)"
      - "Aurora for PostgreSQL/MySQL is excellent"
    notes: "This is OCI's strongest competitive advantage. Lead with database."

  database_mysql:
    aws: "RDS MySQL / Aurora MySQL"
    oci: "MySQL HeatWave"
    oci_advantage:
      - "HeatWave in-memory query accelerator (up to 400x faster analytics)"
      - "Combined OLTP + analytics without ETL"
    aws_advantage:
      - "Aurora is a mature, battle-tested platform"
      - "Broader integration with AWS analytics stack"

  object_storage:
    aws: "S3"
    oci: "OCI Object Storage"
    oci_advantage:
      - "No data retrieval charges for Standard tier"
      - "Cheaper per-GB pricing"
    aws_advantage:
      - "S3 ecosystem is unmatched (integrations, tooling, community)"
      - "S3 Intelligent Tiering is more mature"

  networking:
    aws: "VPC / Direct Connect / ALB/NLB"
    oci: "VCN / FastConnect / Flexible LB"
    oci_advantage:
      - "Free inter-AZ data transfer (AWS charges $0.01/GB)"
      - "Free inter-VCN data transfer within same region via DRG"
      - "Significantly cheaper outbound data transfer"
      - "Service Gateway (free access to OCI services without internet)"
    aws_advantage:
      - "More load balancer features (ALB path-based routing)"
      - "Broader Direct Connect partner ecosystem"
    notes: "Networking cost savings are a major OCI differentiator. Quantify them."

  security:
    aws: "IAM / GuardDuty / SecurityHub / KMS"
    oci: "IAM / Cloud Guard / Security Zones / Vault"
    oci_advantage:
      - "Cloud Guard is free (GuardDuty is per-event pricing)"
      - "Security Zones enforce compliance at resource creation"
      - "Data Safe included free for Autonomous Database"
    aws_advantage:
      - "Broader security partner ecosystem"
      - "More mature SIEM integrations"

  observability:
    aws: "CloudWatch / X-Ray / CloudTrail"
    oci: "Monitoring / APM / Audit / Logging Analytics"
    oci_advantage:
      - "Generous free tier for monitoring"
      - "Logging Analytics is powerful for centralized analysis"
    aws_advantage:
      - "CloudWatch is deeply integrated with all services"
      - "More third-party observability integrations"

competitive_positioning:
  lead_with:
    - "Oracle Database cost savings (BYOL, Exadata, Autonomous)"
    - "Network cost savings (free inter-AZ, cheap egress)"
    - "Overall price/performance for equivalent configurations"
  honest_gaps:
    - "Smaller service catalog than AWS"
    - "Fewer regions (though expanding rapidly)"
    - "Smaller community and ecosystem"
    - "Less mature serverless/event-driven offerings"
  neutralize:
    - "Enterprise support: Oracle Premier Support is equivalent to AWS Enterprise"
    - "Terraform support: full parity via OCI Terraform provider"
    - "Multi-cloud: OCI Multicloud with Azure (Oracle Database@Azure)"
    - "Multi-cloud: Oracle Database@AWS (GA in us-east-1, us-west-2, us-east-2, eu-central-1, ap-northeast-1 + expanding to 20+ regions)"
    - "Database@AWS: co-located Exadata in AWS AZ, ~200-400μs same-AZ latency, single AWS bill"
    - "Database@AWS limitation: ADB-D only, no ADB-S Serverless — requires Exadata dedicated infra"