Oracle Cloud Intrastructure (OCI) - Highlights

Condensed notes from a Gartner report (July 2020) and official documentation -

In 2016, Oracle launched an integrated IaaS and PaaS (IaaS+PaaS) offering, replacing the previous-generation offering, which was called “Oracle Compute Cloud” and is now branded as “OCI Classic.” 

The “Gen 2” offering, originally known as “Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services,” is now branded “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure” (OCI). 

Oracle in early stages focused primarily on a platform designed for and dedicated to Oracle solutions. 

Oracle has prioritized OCI’s strategic roadmap and the features most important to its customers, rather than directly pursuing its competition. As a result, Oracle is now starting to position itself as a viable option when supporting non-Oracle workloads.

Besides OCI, currently AWS and Azure are the only two external public cloud providers allowed to host Oracle solutions

Oracle remains the only option for accessing Oracle solutions via a SaaS model, as AWS and Azure can run Oracle solutions just on IaaS and PaaS. 

OCI has a total of 25 regions live worldwide, and it will launch 16 new Oracle Cloud regions (including one dedicated region), for a total of at least 36 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regions by the end of 2020. 

Gartner now recommends that cloud architects consider OCI not only for cloud environments that are anchored by workloads that use Oracle technologies, but also for use cases centered on bare-metal servers, high-performance computing needs or high-performance networking needs. 

OCI Autonomous Database can tune databases automatically, update and patch the DBMS without downtime, and provide strong DBMS security. 

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) provide software for clustering and higher availability in Oracle Database environments. This makes OCI the primary choice for the best RAC performance level.

The OCI elasticity model, coupled with Oracle’s license-based charging, allows for a simple ad hoc rationalization of the Oracle license estate. For example, rather than committing to 16 CPUs, you can size for fewer and then flex, or burst, to higher CPU usage as needed. Oracle limits this to two times the contracted subscription capacity in a committed model and does charge for the extra resources per hour, billed monthly in arrears using the pay-as-you-go model.

Exadata Cloud@Customer enables customers to locate database platform as a service (dbPaaS) in their own environment, offering a practical and applicable solution for public and financial institutions reluctant to move completely off-premises.

Oracle Functions is built on open-source Fn Project and Docker. It is platform independent with no lock-in 

There are no charges for inbound/outbound data transfer while using Oracle FastConnect, the dedicated and private connection with higher bandwidth options

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