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Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned GPU

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned GPU lets customers deploy GPU infrastructure when ownership or procurement flexibility is required for regulatory, business, or procurement needs. It supports large-scale AI training and inference in OCI Dedicated Cloud while preserving Oracle-managed deployment and service consistency.

Why Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned GPU

  • A distinct sales approach for sales teams pursuing qualified OCI Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned GPU opportunities
  • A predictable service environment for AI platform teams
  • A repeatable support model for operations teams
  • GPU ownership flexibility for sovereignty or procurement requirements
Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned GPU diagram, description below
Physical network architecture connecting customer on-premises systems, including a customer-owned GPU, to workloads in Dedicated Region 1 and Dedicated Region 2, OCI services, and the internet.

Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned GPU features

Clear ownership model

A clear division of responsibility, with customers owning the GPUs and preparing the data center while Oracle manages the AI platform

Customer-owned GPUs

Customer-owned GPUs deployed inside OCI Dedicated Cloud, with Oracle providing the AI infrastructure, high performance networking, platform services, and management

Flexible AI models

Flexible AI model support across Oracle-managed, third-party, and open source models within sovereign deployments

Fully managed platform

Managed end-to-end deployment and support, with Oracle handling installation, networking, maintenance, monitoring, and lifecycle management

Sovereign AI design

Architecture designed to keep training data, model weights, and inference outputs within the required geographic or legal jurisdiction

Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned GPU customers

Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned GPU FAQ

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    • What is OCI Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned GPU?

      OCI Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned GPU is a managed AI infrastructure solution that enables customers to deploy customer-owned GPUs within an OCI Dedicated Cloud environment.

    • Who owns the GPUs?

      The customer owns the GPU investment, while Oracle provides the architecture design, deployment, networking, support, and ongoing management.

    • What does Oracle provide?

      Oracle provides the AI infrastructure, platform services, deployment support, maintenance, and operational management needed to run AI workloads at scale.

    • What if Oracle doesn’t host the model I want?

      Oracle lets customers bring validated open source or third-party models from Hugging Face or OCI Object Storage into OCI Generative AI and run them on dedicated AI clusters.

    • Are there approval or capacity constraints?

      Yes. GPU expansions outside standard options require OCI Dedicated Cloud product management review, and some shipments may require export compliance approval.

Dedicated Cloud Customer Owned use cases

  • Data residency and sovereign AI for regulated workloads, national AI initiatives, and sensitive enterprise data

  • Enterprise AI platforms for developers, data scientists, and business teams

  • Enterprise knowledge assistants, AI-powered search and retrieval-augmented generation, and secure AI assistants grounded in enterprise content and policies

  • Industry-specific AI solutions for healthcare, financial services, and public sector workloads

  • Large-scale AI training and fine-tuning for proprietary models on dedicated GPU infrastructure

Get started with sovereign AI

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  • Which Oracle AI and ML services offer a free pricing tier?

    • OCI Speech
    • OCI Language
    • OCI Vision
    • OCI Document Understanding
    • Machine Learning in Oracle Database
    • OCI Data Labeling

    You also only have to pay compute and storage charges for OCI Data Science.

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