Arm-Based Compute

Leading price-performance

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers Ampere Altra processors with an industry-leading 80 cores per CPU, with all cores capable of running at the maximum frequency of 3.0 Ghz consistently. Each core comes with its own 64 KB L1 I-cache, 64 KB L1 D-cache, and a huge 1 MB L2 D-cache, and delivers predictable performance.

Combined with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s high-performance cloud architecture, Ampere’s Altra processor delivers the best price-performance in the cloud.

Ampere A1 compute shapes are available in both bare metal with 160 cores and flexible VMs with up to 80 cores at a penny a core pricing, with cores billed at $0.01 per OCPU-hour and memory billed at $0.0015 per GB-hour in all regions.

Flexible cores and memory

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers customers the option of Arm-based compute in three forms: powerful bare metal servers with most Arm cores available today, flexible VM shapes for precise workload rightsizing, and Dedicated Region Cloud @Customer for demanding latency or data locality requirements.

Our uniquely flexible VM shapes scale from 1 to 156 cores and 1 to 64 GB of memory per core. Now, you can select the specific number of cores and the amount of memory when creating or resizing your VM. This flexibility lets you build VMs that better match your workload requirements, so that you can get the best performance while optimizing on cost.

Enhanced security

Ampere A1 and A2 compute platform shapes are powered by Arm processors. Each processor core is single-threaded and has its own resources. Running one thread per core means there is no sharing of the execution engine, registers, and L1/L2 cache between threads, which minimizes the attack surface for exploits. This eliminates potential core-sharing and thread-security issues, and enhances the security posture of the processor.

Coupled with the security built into Ampere processors, Oracle Cloud’s security-first approach spans across compute, network, and storage. It’s complemented by essential safeguarding services to provide the required levels of security for your most business-critical workloads.

Rich developer ecosystem

Oracle works closely with various technology and open source partners to enable our customers to access the latest technology and in-depth expertise within the partner ecosystem. Oracle brings forth ISV developer tools; open source organizations such as GitLab, Jenkins, and Docker; and technology partners such as Arm to support you in building and running server-side Arm-based solutions fast and porting existing applications seamlessly. Oracle offers Arm ports for Oracle Linux, Java, and MySQL to jumpstart your development on Ampere compute.

Compute choices for all your workloads

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides several compute options: You can create bare metal instances, VMs, or containers, or you can run serverless functions using Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Ampere CPU/GPU architectures. With the addition of Ampere Arm CPUs, you have even more diversity in how you run your workloads. Deploy applications on containers, bare metal servers, and VMs in Oracle’s public cloud or OCI Dedicated Region. OCI Dedicated Region is ideal if you want the power of the cloud and the performance of Ampere bare metal and VM shapes in your own data center.

Choice of operating systems and runtimes

Oracle Ampere A1 and A2 compute platform shapes support commonly used Linux distributions such as Oracle Linux and Ubuntu. All these images are easily accessible and can be deployed from the OCI Console. The Oracle Linux Developer image for Ampere includes runtime languages support for Java, Python, PHP, Node.js, Go, and C/C++. The developer image enables you to install, configure, and launch a development environment that includes common programming languages and OCI client tools and utilities.