Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Differentiators

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform was launched in late 2016. The first form factor in OCI was the Bare Metal shape (a template that determines the number of CPUs, amount of memory, and other resources allocated to a newly created instance).

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure differentiators -

Technical 
* Performance
- Off-box network virtualization - virtualization is no longer committed into the hypervisor, all the storage and network I/O virtualization is now engineered into the network outside the physical box using custom silicon cards.

- Bare Metal + Local NVMe storage 

- All SSD storage
- No Network, CPU or Memory over-subscription

* Battle tested (NetSuite and other SaaS apps run on OCI)
* DB Options - BM, VM, Exadata, RAC
* Enterprise Apps support (EBS, JDE..)

Business 
* Aggressive and predictable pricing — cheaper than AWS
* Industry's unique SLAs on Performance, Management and Availability whereas most of the other cloud providers give you SLAs only on availability.
* BYOL and Universal Cloud Credits
* Support through one org

Other differences:
- All OCI Regions have the same pricing
- Oracle measures compute in Oracle Compute Units or OCPUs whilst Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud all use vCPUs. An OCPU provides CPU capacity equivalent to one physical core of a processor with hyper threading enabled. Each OCPU corresponds to two hardware execution threads, known as vCPUs
- Only autonomous database in the cloud
- The ability to Bring Your Own Hypervisor is unique to Oracle and is enabled by using several Oracle Cloud Infrastructure features like Storage, Network and Compute resources.
- Public Cloud Service Mapping - comparison of OCI, AWS, Azure & GCP services