Salesforce to Use Amazon’s Cloud to Expand in Canada and Australia - The New York Times

A good data point on how well Oracle Database (and/or perhaps Postgres) runs on AWS...

"Amazon Web Services, the biggest of the cloud-computing providers, has a new line of work: Taking other cloud-computing giants into other countries.

On Wednesday, Salesforce.com announced it would use A.W.S. to expand in Canada and Australia, in a deal valued at about $400 million. If successful, the value of the transaction will most likely get much bigger.

“For sure, we’re talking of billions of dollars in services over the next several years,” said Marc Benioff, the co-founder and chief executive of Salesforce."

Salesforce to Use Amazon’s Cloud to Expand in Canada and Australia - The New York Times