Compute

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides flexible, high performance, and secure compute for any workload—including AI and machine learning (ML), compute intensive, enterprise, and cloud native applications.

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This new AI supercomputer, the largest in the cloud, will deliver up to 131,072 NVIDIA GPUs, allowing you to build, train, and inference AI at scale.

Why use OCI Compute?

Up to 60% savings

OCI, unlike other cloud providers, lets you select the number of cores and memory to match your workload needs for average annual cost savings of up to 60% (PDF) with fully customizable instances.

48% more efficiency

According to industry analyst IDC’s business value report, organizations using OCI have realized benefits worth an average of US$11.6 million per year and a five-year ROI of 393%. OCI has enabled them to be 48% more efficient in deploying compute and 30% more efficient in deploying storage.

Highly secure

Shielded instances, confidential computing, hardware root of trust, and off-box virtualization help reduce attacks by low-level malware, denial of service, and other malicious software, helping applications run securely.

OCI Compute services

Virtual machines (VMs)

Run a wide range of workloads, from small development projects to large-scale global applications, on OCI Compute VMs securely and achieve improved price-performance.


Flexible VMs

VMs are customizable from 1–94 cores for AMD EPYC processors, 1–32 cores for Intel, and 1–80 cores for Ampere processors, with 1–1,094 GB RAM and network bandwidth that scales with the number of cores.
Learn more about Flexible VMs

Optimized VMs

Optimized VM shapes provide 1–18 high-frequency processor cores and support cluster networking with 4–40 Gb/sec of network bandwidth.
Learn more about Dense I/O VMs

Dense I/O VMs

Dense I/O VMs, with 8–24 cores and 128–512 GB RAM, offer 6.8–27.2 TB high performance, locally attached NVMe storage for big data and analytics workloads.
Learn more about Dense I/O VMs

Dedicated VM hosts

Dedicated VM host shapes offer bare metal instances with 36–128 cores and 512–2,048 GB memory per host with software to host VMs.
Learn more about Dedicated VM hosts

Save as much as 60% with OCI Compute

While other cloud service providers have higher prices in almost every region outside the US, OCI customers enjoy the same services, performance, and prices everywhere.

For a similar configuration, OCI Compute costs less.*

57%

less than AWS m6a.xlarge

57%

less than Azure D4as v5

51%

less than Google Cloud n2d-standard-4

* Compared with the monthly cost of a two OCPU (four vCPU) AMD (E4) with 16 GB in US eastern regions. On-demand prices are as of June 5, 2024.

OCI Compute reference architectures

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Get started with OCI Compute services

Try 20+ Always Free cloud services, with a 30-day trial for even more

Oracle offers a Free Tier with no time limits on more than 20 services such as Compute, Storage, and Autonomous Database, as well as US$300 in free credits to try additional cloud services. Get the details and sign up for your free account today.

  • What’s included with Oracle Cloud Free Tier?

    • AMD and Arm Compute VMs
    • 200 GB total block storage
    • 10 GB object storage
    • 2 Autonomous Databases, 20 GB each
    • 10 TB outbound data transfer per month
    • 10+ more Always Free services
    • US$300 in free credits for 30 days for even more

Learn with a hands-on lab

The best way to learn is to try it yourself. Use our tutorials and hands-on labs with the Oracle Cloud Free Tier, your own Oracle Cloud tenancy, or for selected solutions in an Oracle-provided free lab environment.

  • Deploy HA Applications Using Load Balancers

    In this lab you will deploy web servers on two compute instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), configured in High Availability mode by using a Load Balancer.

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  • Get started with OCI Core Services

    Explore basic OCI services, including Compute, Networking, and Storage.

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  • Deploy Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes

    In this lab you will deploy a Container Engine for Kubernetes cluster, connect to it, and run a sample application using OCI CLI.

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  • Migrate Tomcat Java Applications to OCI

    Explore how to migrate Tomcat to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and connect to an Autonomous Database.

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See how much you can save with OCI

Oracle Cloud pricing is simple, with consistent low pricing worldwide, supporting a wide range of use cases. To estimate your low rate, check out the cost estimator and configure the services to suit your needs.

Experience the difference

  • 1/4 the outbound bandwidth costs
  • 3X the compute price-performance
  • Same low price in every region
  • Low pricing without long term commitments

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    • How do I get started with Oracle Cloud?
    • What kinds of workloads can I run on OCI?
    • What types of services does OCI offer?