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OCI best practices pillars



The OCI best practices framework is organized under four business goals: security and compliance, reliability and resilience, performance cost optimization, and operational efficiency. Many of the topics within the articles have one or more personas intended to map to architect roles within typical Oracle Cloud Infrastructure organizations. Learn the best practices:

Security and compliance

  • User authentication
  • Resource isolation and access control
  • Compute security
  • Database security
  • Data protection
  • Network security

Reliability and resilience

  • Fault-tolerant network architecture
  • Service limits and quotas
  • Data backup
  • Scaling

Performance and cost optimization

  • Compute sizing
  • Storage strategy
  • Network monitoring and tuning
  • Cost tracking and management

Operational efficiency

  • Deployment strategy
  • Workload monitoring
  • OS management
  • Support

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