Cloud Storage
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides customers with high-performance computing and low-cost cloud storage options. Through on-demand local, object, file, block, and archive storage, Oracle Cloud addresses key storage workload requirements and use cases. Customers can use the storage gateway and data transfer service to safely and securely move their data to the cloud.
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Why customers choose Oracle Cloud storage
Fast, scalable, and durable cloud storage
OCI storage delivers consistent high performance and scalability. Customers get block volumes that scale up to 1 PB, file storage that can scale up to 8 EB, and local NVMe that scales to 2 TB. Also, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage and Archive Storage are backed by an availability service level agreement, offering highly reliable data storage.
Explore Cloud Storage OptionsAdvanced block storage
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Block Volume delivers consistent, low-latency performance of up to 300,000 IOPS and 2,680 MB/sec of throughput per volume. Enable dynamic performance scaling with auto-tuning of block volumes. For performance-intensive applications, OCI Block Volume offers up to 700,000 IOPS and 9,600 MB/sec of throughput per host. OCI Block Volume costs approximately 70% less for a 1 TB volume than AWS gp3 at 16,000 IOPS.
Explore OCI Block VolumeSecurity-first architecture
Reduce storage risks with Oracle Cloud's security-first design architecture that utilizes built-in tenant isolation, least privilege access, and data encryption at rest. All storage services are integrated into Oracle Identity and Access Management to centrally manage access and permissions.
Explore Oracle Cloud securityLower pricing and lower costs
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Storage is 57% less expensive than the competition, and it delivers performance that meets or exceeds their offerings. Oracle’s straightforward cloud storage pricing has no provisioning charges, complex pricing formulas, or pricing variances based on geography.
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High-performance block storage at any scale
We've designed our storage platform as an ideal complement to Oracle compute and networking services to support the highest performance requirements. OCI Block Volume uses the latest NVMe SSDs and provides nonblocking network connectivity to every host. Oracle delivers consistent, low-latency performance of up to 225 IOPS/GB to a maximum of 300,000 IOPS and 2,680 MB/sec of throughput per volume.
Features
- Cross-region asynchronous block volume replication
- Consistent high performance
- Dynamic performance scaling with auto-tuning of block volumes
- Scales volumes from 50 GB to 32 TB
- Attach volumes to reach 1 PB per compute instance
- Less than half the price of AWS EBS
- Encryption at rest by default using AES 256
- Encryption in transit supported by TLS 1.2
- Automatic monitoring for data integrity
Flexible object storage that scales
Object Storage enables customers to store any type of data in its native format. This is ideal for building modern applications that require scale and flexibility, as it can be used to consolidate multiple data sources for analytics, backup, or archive purposes.
Features
- Auto Tiering
- Distributed, durable object storage
- Highly available and scalable
- Access via API, HDFS Plugin, SDK, console, or CLI
- Archive storage option
- Encryption at rest by default using AES 256
- Automatic monitoring
- Self-healing
File storage that automatically scales
Oracle File Storage provides a fully managed Network File System (NFS) that scales automatically to accommodate growth up to 8 exabytes, eliminating the need to provision capacity in advance. Multiway replication ensures data availability and durability.
Features
- Cross-region asynchronous file storage replication
- Snapshot and clone capabilities
- Automatic elasticity without provisioning
- Scalable from kilobytes to 8 exabytes
- Automatic elastic scaling without provisioning
- Highly available, durable filesystems
- Encryption at rest by default using AES 256
- Encryption in transit supported by TLS 1.2
- Support for managing your own encryption keys
Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) for virtual machines and bare metal
Local NVMe SSD storage provides extremely low latency and high performance flash-based storage, which is ideal for workloads that benefit from high-throughput local storage. Oracle Cloud provides up to 51.2 TB of capacity per instance and 5.5M IOPS at low 10 to 100 microsecond latency.
Features
- Available on DenseIO virtual machines and bare metal
- Up to 52 TB of capacity
- 5.5 million IOPS
- Complete customer control
Long-term, low-cost data storage
Archive Storage provides reliable and durable long-term data at one-tenth the cost of Oracle Object Storage, while using the same APIs for easy setup and integration. Data is monitored for integrity, automatically healed, and encrypted at rest.
Features
- Easy to use and integrate
- Highly reliable and durable
- No cost for inbound data transfer
- Encryption at rest by default using AES 256
- Automatic monitoring for data integrity
High-volume data migration
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Transfer Appliance allows customers to securely move large volumes of data into Oracle Cloud in days, rather than weeks or months, at no charge.
Features
- Use console UI, CLI, SDK, or third-party tools
- Flexibility to use your own disks—HDD and SSD
- Up to 150TB per appliance
- Integrated monitoring
- No cost for inbound data transfer
- Data encrypted at load time using AES 256 encryption
- Integrity enforced by checksums
- Upload summaries confirm data integrity
- Encrypted networks used in Oracle Cloud
Extend on-premises storage to Oracle Cloud
Storage Gateway lets customers augment and extend on-premises data by bridging their local file systems with Object Storage in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and is available at no charge.
Features
- Easily extend local storage to Oracle Cloud
- Simple to use and free of charge
- Scales to 100 million files per file system
- Fully encrypted
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Authentication and authorization for OCI File Storage with Kerberos and LDAP
Aboo Valappil, Technical Product Manager, OCI, and Prashant Jagannathan, Principal Product Manager, OCI
Organizations that use Kerberos and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for identity management often want to integrate their storage systems for secure centralized authentication and authorization. OCI File Storage can be integrated with Kerberos and LDAP to secure your File Storage-based NFS shares.
Read the complete postFeatured blogs
- January 18, 2023 Announcing OCI File Storage replication
- August 30, 2022 Announcing dynamic performance scaling with autotuning for OCI Block Storage
- July 29, 2022 Using OCI Object Storage bucket encryption
- March 28, 2022 OCI Object Storage validated with IBM Spectrum Scale as low-cost storage tiering layer
- March 17, 2022 OCI File Storage service is now VMware certified
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