The News: Oracle is providing tools, solutions, and support to fuel Arm-based application development to help customers and developers take advantage

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Exercises the Right to Bear Arm

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2021-06-04 20:00:05

The News: Oracle is providing tools, solutions, and support to fuel Arm-based application development to help customers and developers take advantage of Arm technology. Oracle has announced that its first Arm-based compute offering, OCI Ampere AI Compute, is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Now, customers can run cloud-native and general-purpose workloads on Arm-based instances with significant price performance benefits.

Oracle is seeking differentiation among the major public cloud providers by offering Arm-based compute instances at only one cent per core per core hour with flexible VM sizing from 1 to 80 OCPUs and 1 to 64 GB of memory per core or as a bare-metal service with 160 cores and 1 TB of memory. Customers can now deploy Arm-optimized applications on containers, bare metal services, and virtual machines in the Oracle public cloud, or Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. Read the Oracle release here.

Analyst Take: Oracle is investing in the Arm ecosystem, providing developers with more choice in compute instances and price-performance alternative to x86 instance on a per-core basis. Three distinct offerings are available to developers to get started on OCI. With Oracle Cloud Free Tier, developers receive US$300 in free credits for 30 days.