Amazon’s Prime Day outage may have been caused by moving off Oracle’s databases

Oracle co-founder, chief
technology officer and executive chairman Larry
Ellison
Business
Insider

Amazon did not have a great Prime
day this year. 

The ecommerce giant’s
website crashed, and sales slowed down due to a technical
problem at one of Amazon’s warehouses in Ohio.

It turns out that the warehouse
outage was caused by Amazon moving off Oracle’s database software
to its own technology,

CNBC
reported

. This delayed
15,000 package deliveries and wasted $90,000 in labor costs, not
including the hours spent by engineers troubleshooting, according
to CNBC’s reporting. 

Previously, Amazon announced it
would move completely off Oracle’s database by 2020. Oracle
cofounder, chief technology officer and executive chairman Larry
Ellison has since scoffed at the idea, saying  “it’s

kind of
embarrassing

” that
Amazon uses Oracle’s databases to power its business.
 

Oracle also responded saying that
just a year ago, Amazon

spent $60 million

on Oracle software. And on Monday
at the Oracle OpenWorld keynote, Ellison
compared Amazon’s database to a semi-autonomous car, saying,
“You get in, you start driving, you die.” 

The Ohio warehouse was the
largest of the 13 warehouses that moved its database off of
Oracle’s before Prime Day,

CNBC
reported

.

Read the full CNBC story here.