Oracle designed a second-generation cloud infrastructure, available now for new customers, to meet the needs of the enterprise-scale Oracle Database users that are increasingly ready to move their workloads to online versions. The new architecture not only improves security and reliability, it increases computing speed, providing Oracle a cost advantage against AWS since cloud work is billed by the minute. "It's found money for us," Ellison said. "We can afford to be much more aggressive on pricing than they can."