Innovate with cloud native

Cloud native services enable you to build, run, and automate dynamic applications such as AI using containers, microservices, and scalable cloud infrastructure.

Use Oracle Cloud Native Services to Deliver Amazing Software (1:14)

OCI recognized for Kubernetes and serverless price-performance leadership

CIO magazine highlights Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a leader in cloud native technologies, with proven expertise in Kubernetes and serverless solutions.

Why build cloud native applications on OCI?

  • OKE + infrastructure

    OKE + infrastructure

    Build, deploy, and scale with OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and flexible compute shapes.

  • Data, data, data

    Data, data, data

    Tap into your business-critical data stored in Oracle Database and HeatWave MySQL.

  • AI services

    AI services

    Easily infuse AI into your apps with API-based services such as OCI Generative AI.

  • Your tools

    Your tools

    Bring your own stack: Argo CD, GitHub, Jira, PostgreSQL, Redis, and others plug right in.

  • Open source

    Open source

    Functions, Kubernetes, OpenSearch, and other services are based on popular projects.

  • Fast start

    Fast start

    Get going quickly with tutorials, labs, reference architectures, and a vibrant community.

Cloud native use cases

  • Streamline application development

    Accelerate innovation and time to market with CI/CD pipelines, serverless Functions, and managed Kubernetes. Boost performance and utilization while lowering cost.

    Read about JSL’s success

  • Harness the value of your data

    Put the data you already own to work. Connect your apps to structured and unstructured data in Oracle Database, HeatWave MySQL, and object storage buckets.

    Learn about Seismic’s approach

  • Infuse intelligence into your apps

    Plug in to powerful prebuilt AI services to breathe new capabilities and intelligence into your applications. Start using generative AI, speech, language, vision, and more.

    Read what Bosch has done

  • Train and deploy AI models

    Use OKE to facilitate complex AI model training on vast quantities of GPUs. Automate model deployment, increase resiliency, and scale resources based on demand.

    See how CERN uses OCI

  • Visit the AI Solutions Hub

    Get started today with step-by-step instructions.

  • OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE) blog posts

    Read product news and thought leadership.

  • Try a free AI workshop

    Get started with one of OCI’s AI services.

Everything you need to build cloud native applications

OCI cloud native services enable you to quickly design and deploy container-based applications, microservices, and more.

Containers, Kubernetes, and Functions are foundational to cloud native

Package, deploy, run, and scale containerized applications more efficiently—at 3X better cost performance.

OCI Kubernetes Engine

A managed Kubernetes service with advanced security, high performance, and an option for a serverless experience with Virtual Nodes.

Container Instances

A serverless compute service that enables you to run containers easily and quickly without managing any infrastructure.

Functions

A serverless compute service that allows you to create, run, and scale event-driven applications without managing any infrastructure, paying only for compute time used during function execution.

Container Registry

A registry service to securely store, manage, and share container images with a familiar Docker CLI and API interface, with built-in security scanning and image signing.

AI developer services to power your next innovation

Infuse AI into new or existing applications to support new use cases and unlock new value streams.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Comprehensive AI services and state-of-the-art generative AI innovations on our data platform and in our cloud applications—all on a best-in-class AI infrastructure.

Generative AI Service

Fully managed service for seamlessly integrating large language models (LLMs) into a range of use cases, such as writing assistance, summarization, analysis, and chat.

Generative AI Agents

Combines the power of LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with your enterprise data, letting users query diverse enterprise knowledge bases.

Digital Assistant

Chatbots to deliver conversational experiences via your website, mobile apps, and business applications.

Language

Sophisticated text analysis at scale—including sentiment analysis, key-phrase extraction, and classification.

Speech

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and highly accurate transcription of audio/video files across languages.

Vision

Computer vision to detect visual anomalies, automatically classify images, extract text from docs, and more.

Document Understanding

Extracts text, tables, and other key data from document files to automate tedious business processing tasks with prebuilt AI models to fit industry-specific needs.

Everything you need for modern services communication

Create, consume, secure, and manage the lifecycle of everything required for microservices to communicate with each other.

API Management

A managed, high availability API frontend gateway for deploying, operating, securing, and monetizing API services.

Serverless APIs

OCI Functions triggered on demand to connect to APIs, eliminating the need for infrastructure operations or over-provisioning.

Events

CloudEvents-compatible service that tracks resource changes to trigger functions, write to streams, or send email, SMS, or other webhooks notifications.

Notifications

High availability, low-latency publish/subscribe service that sends alerts and messages to OCI Functions, email, SMS, and message delivery partners, including Slack, PagerDuty, and ServiceNow.

Streaming with Kafka

Real-time, serverless, Kafka-compatible event streaming for developers and data scientists with pay-as-you-go pricing and zero-cost data movement between cloud services.

Queue

A serverless messaging service for securely autoscaling asynchronous, guaranteed message delivery; sends and receives messages using REST and STOMP endpoints.

From dev to production: DevOps, CI/CD, and application development

Plug in and run whatever you need with full support for open source, third-party technologies, and ecosystem tools.

Native dev environment

Development environment with option to plug in existing Dev tools or use built-in Code repository, Container Registry, Artifact Repository, Code Editor, Cloud Shell, and more.

Low-code development

Enables non-developers to easily extend Oracle business applications, build mobile apps, or add a GUI on top of databases via APEX or Visual Builder Studio.

DevOps CI/CD

Declarative serverless CI/CD pipelines to automate end-to-end delivery; includes secure deployments to private resources and options such as canary, rolling, and more.

Code Editor

In-console tool designed on Eclipse Theia framework for efficient source code editing.

Work how you like

As a developer or DevOps engineer, work with OCI’s REST APIs, CLI, SDKs, Cloud Shell, or via the intuitive GUI.

Integrated ecosystem

Connects tools already in use such as GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Rancher, EFK, Spinnaker, etc. enables use of our IDE plugins for Visual Studio, Eclipse, and more, as well as OCI’s providers and operators for VMware Tanzu, Azure, Pulumi, and others.

Resource Manager

Terraform-as-a-service to automate infrastructure as code



Modern data solutions designed for developers

Leverage cost-optimized and high performance databases plus data science and blockchain.

HeatWave MySQL

Elastic MySQL database service that combines transactions, analytics and in-database ML all in one; automated operations and high performance significantly faster than RDS or Snowflake at a fraction of the cost.

Autonomous Database

Serverless, high performant Oracle Database service that runs all workloads, including OLTP, analytics, batch, JSON, Internet of Things (IoT), and more.

NoSQL

Predictable single-digit millisecond performance at scale, suitable for applications with dynamic I/O rate or for serverless applications; supports both schema and schemaless data models.

Machine Learning Services

A full range of ML and GenAI innovations, including vector databases, fully integrated in Oracle’s data platforms, providing in-database tools and algorithms to build, manage, and deploy ML models.

Data Science

End-to-end ML service enables data scientists to build, train, and manage ML models using their favorite open source frameworks and tools.

Blockchain

Based on the open source Hyperledger Fabric, Oracle’s managed service enables quick provisioning of a private, secure, preassembled blockchain network with a shared distributed ledger.

Java—reimagined for modern microservices

Benefit from the best support, out-of-the-box management, and enhanced performance for modernizing Java apps.

High performance Java—free on OCI

At no cost for Java applications running on OCI; Oracle GraalVM’s patented optimizations on top of open source GraalVM for an additional performance boost for modern microservices and existing Java applications.

Free Java SE

All the benefits of the Java SE subscription, available for free on OCI.

Java Management Service

Single pane of glass to manage large-scale Java environments for performance, security, and compliance.

Micronaut and Helidon

Lightweight Java microservice application frameworks.

GraalVM and Graal Cloud Native

High performance OpenJDK and Java SE that’s optimal for microservices and cloud deployments, with prebuilt integration to cloud services.

WebLogic Server for OKE

Java EE environment deployment on OCI, including WebLogic Server on Kubernetes.

Coherence

Enables caching for even faster performance.

VisualVM

All-in-one Java troubleshooting tool.

Customers innovating with cloud native services on OCI

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Why customers choose OCI for cloud native services

Improve developer speed and productivity

  • Intermedia uses OCI Generative AI to automate time-consuming activities.

  • Wiz selected OCI in part due to Oracle’s commitment to open source.

  • Impulse Logic modernized their store optimization software to be cloud native.

  • Inworld chose OCI because of its AI infrastructure, OKE, and Oracle Support.

Ensure reliable operations and optimal cost performance

  • ALEF picked OCI as a cost-effective, scalable, and secure cloud-based solution.

  • 8x8 delivers high-quality service with OCI’s flexible shapes and global regions.

  • CSM enjoys the performance and scale of OCI Supercluster and OKE for ML.

  • McGraw Hill launched a multicloud data center exit using OCI services.

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