Compute
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides fast, flexible, and affordable compute capacity to fit any workload need, from high performance bare metal instances and flexible VMs to lightweight containers and serverless computing.
OCI revenue has grown 76% year over year (Q4 FY2023 earnings). Hear why customers are choosing us.
OCI Compute capabilities
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Flexible virtual machines
Select exactly the number of cores and the memory your applications need.
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Containers and Kubernetes
Your choice of technologies, including containers and Kubernetes.
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GPU instances
NVIDIA GPUs for machine learning, scientific visualization, and other graphics processing.
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HPC instances
Capabilities such as RDMA, high performance storage, and network traffic isolation.
Compute customer successes
Compute services deliver when cloud performance matters
Up to
94
cores for virtual machines
Up to
192
cores for bare metal instances
Up to
1PB
of block storage per instance
Up to
1X100Gb/sec
of network bandwidth*
* Up to 8x200 Gb/sec of RDMA bandwidth
Dive deeper into OCI compute, storage, and networking.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's compute services
Virtual machines (VMs)
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Flexible VMs
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Virtual machine–based shapes offer customizable core and memory combinations. Customers can optimize costs by choosing a specific number of cores and the amount of memory to customize their workload needs.
- 1 core to 94 cores of AMD EPYC processors; 1 GB to 1,049 GB of RAM; also available as burstable instances and preemptible instances
- 1 core to 32 cores of Intel processors; 1 GB to 512 GB of memory
- 1 core to 80 cores of Ampere A1 (Arm-based) processors
- Network bandwidth and virtual network interfaces scale proportionally to number of cores
- Select shapes are available as confidential instances
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Dense-IO VMs
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VM shapes offer high performance local storage for large databases, big data workloads, and other applications.
- 8, 16, or 24 cores
- 128 GB to 512 GB
- 6.8 TB to 27.2 TB of NVMe
- 8 Gb/sec to 32 Gb/sec of network bandwidth
- 8 to 24 virtual network interfaces
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GPU-accelerated VMs
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GPU VM shapes include NVIDIA graphics processors for running hardware-accelerated workloads.
- NVIDIA Ampere A10, Volta V100, and Pascal P100 GPUs
- 1, 2, and 4 GPUs
- 6, 12, 15, 24, and 30 cores
- 16 GB to 64 GB of GPU memory
- 72 GB to 480 GB of CPU memory
- 8 Gb/sec to 48 Gb/sec of network bandwidth
- 6 to 24 virtual network interfaces
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Optimized VMs
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Optimized VM shapes provide high frequency processor cores and support for cluster networking.
- 1 core to 18 cores
- 1 GB to 256 GB of memory
- 4 Gb/sec to 40 Gb/sec of network bandwidth
- 2 to 18 virtual network interfaces
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Dedicated VM hosts
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Dedicated VM host shapes offer bare metal instances provisioned with software to host VMs.
- Intel or AMD processors
- 36 to 128 cores per host
- 512 GB to 2,048 GB of memory per host
Bare metal
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Standard bare metal instances
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Bare metal instances provide a balance of cores, memory, and network resources.
- Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, and Ampere (Arm-based) processors
- 64 to 192 cores
- 1,024 GB to 2,304 GB of memory
- Up to 1x100 Gb/sec of network bandwidth
- 101 to 256 virtual network interfaces
- Select shapes are available as confidential instances
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Dense I/O bare metal instances
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Bare metal instances equipped with high-performance local storage and optimized for large databases and big data workloads.
- 128 cores
- 2,048 GB of memory
- 54.4 TB of NVMe SSD
- 2x50 Gb/sec of network bandwidth
- Up to 256 virtual network interfaces
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Bare metal GPU instances
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Bare metal instances equipped with NVIDIA graphics processors in addition to Intel or AMD processors.
- Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC processors
- NVIDIA H100, L40S (coming soon), A100, A10, V100, and P100 GPUs
- Up to 128 cores
- Up to 2,048 GB of CPU memory
- Up to 8 GPUs per node
- Up to 640 GB of GPU memory
- Up to 27.2 TB of NVMe SSD
- Up to 50 Gb/sec of network bandwidth and 8x200 Gb/sec of RDMA bandwidth
- Up to 256 virtual network interfaces
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Bare metal HPC instances
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Bare metal instances for high performance computing (HPC) workloads that require high frequency processor cores and cluster networking.
- 36 cores
- 512 GB
- 3.84 TB of NVMe SSD
- Up to 2x50 Gb/sec of network bandwidth and 1x100 Gb/sec of RDMA bandwidth
- Up to 256 virtual network interfaces
Cloud native and containers
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Functions
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Functions is a serverless platform that lets developers create, run, and scale applications without managing any infrastructure.
- Up to 20 applications and 500 functions per OCI region*
- Up to 60 GB of total memory for concurrent function executing*
- Up to 6 MB of request payload and response payload
* Customers can request limit increases for greater needs.
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Kubernetes
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OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is a managed Kubernetes service for operating containerized applications at scale while reducing the time, cost, and operational burden of managing the complexities of Kubernetes infrastructure—including providing a complete serverless experience with virtual nodes. Container Engine for Kubernetes supports the following types of virtual machines, bare metal instances, and GPU instances:
- Flexible VMs
- Standard VMs
- Dense I/O VMs
- Standard bare metal instances
- Dense I/O bare metal instances
- HPC bare metal instances
- GPU instances
- Preemptible instances
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Containers
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OCI Container Instances is a serverless compute service that lets you instantly run containers without managing any servers.
- Serverless compute optimized for container workloads
- Containers run on dedicated environment with strong isolation for enhanced security
- Integrated networking and access control
- Allocate all CPU and memory resources of underlying compute shape to a container instance to support the most demanding workloads
- Simple pay-per-use pricing—pay for the CPU and memory resources allocated to your container instance at the same price as Compute
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Container images
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OCI Container Registry is an open standards–based, Oracle-managed Docker registry service for securely storing and sharing container images.
- Users can leverage container images owned by third parties as well as others owned by Oracle, such as MySQL and WebLogic.
- OCI Artifact Registry is a repository service for storing, sharing, and managing software development packages.
Other services
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Virtual desktop
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Virtual desktops deliver an improved experience and a lower administration cost.
- Data remains within the OCI environment and region as only the display is transmitted.
- Choose from a native option, OCI Secure Desktops, or a partner-certified offering, VMware Horizon. Both options feature Windows, MacOS, and Linux clients, as well as access from supported web browsers.
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OS images
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OCI supports several prebuilt Oracle-provided images and user-created custom images. In addition, Oracle OS Management Service lets you manage updates and patches for the operating system environments on your instances.
- Oracle-provided images include multiple versions of CentOS, Oracle Linux, Oracle Autonomous Linux, Ubuntu, and Windows Server. Users can also create and manage custom images.
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VMware-based compute
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Oracle Cloud VMware Solution lets you create and manage VMware-enabled, software-defined data centers in OCI. The minimum configuration includes
- 156 cores
- 2,304 GB of physical memory
- 153 TB of NVMe-based storage
Compute’s consistent and transparent global pricing across regions
With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), customers have the same low cloud pricing across all regions and services, enabling predictable spending from proof of concept to full production. Leverage committed use discounts, software license portability, and additional rewards.
Reduce your costs by matching compute to workload profile with preemptible and burstable instances.
VM.STANDARD.E3.FLEX
1 OCPU 1 GB RAM
$0.007/hour
Increase or decrease CPU or RAM to optimize performance and reduce cost.
VM.STANDARD.A1.FLEX
1 GB–64 GB PER OCPU
$0.0115/hour
Balance cores, memory, and network resources.
BM.STANDARD.A1.160
160 OCPU 1,024 GB RAM
$3.136/hour
Provide servers and VMs with access to NVIDIA GPUs for graphics and AI/ML workloads.
VM.GPU3.1
6 OCPU 16 GB RAM
$2.95/hour
Available now: E5 instances on AMD EPYC processors for up to 2X better performance
Mia Yu, Principal Product Manager
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of OCI Compute E5 Standard bare metal and virtual machine instances based on the fourth generation of AMD EPYC processors (code-named "Genoa"). Compared to the previous generation of E4 Standard bare metal instances with 128 OCPUs, the E5 Standard bare metal instances have 192 OCPUs (192 cores or 384 threads) with more than 33% better performance per core.
Read the complete postFeatured OCI Compute blogs
- May 1, 2023 First Principles: Eliminating VM downtime with OCI's live migration
- May 1, 2023 Improve your VM workload availability with OCI's live migration
- November 1, 2022 Standards in the cloud with Arm SystemReady Virtual Environment
- October 19, 2022 Faster large model training with NVIDIA A100 80GB Tensor Core GPU
- October 19, 2022 Protect data in use with OCI Confidential Computing
Compute reference architectures
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Try 20+ Always Free cloud services, with a 30-day trial for even more
Oracle offers a Free Tier with no time limits on more than 20 services such as Compute, Storage, and Autonomous Database, as well as US$300 in free credits to try additional cloud services. Get the details and sign up for your free account today.
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What’s included with Oracle Cloud Free Tier?
- AMD and Arm Compute VMs
- 200 GB total block storage
- 10 GB object storage
- 2 Autonomous Databases, 20 GB each
- 10 TB outbound data transfer per month
- 10+ more Always Free services
- US$300 in free credits for 30 days for even more
Learn with a hands-on lab
The best way to learn is to try it yourself. Use our tutorials and hands-on labs with the Oracle Cloud Free Tier, your own Oracle Cloud tenancy, or for selected solutions in an Oracle-provided free lab environment.
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Deploy HA Applications Using Load Balancers
In this lab you will deploy web servers on two compute instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), configured in High Availability mode by using a Load Balancer.
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Get started with OCI Core Services
Explore basic OCI services, including Compute, Networking, and Storage.
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Deploy Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
In this lab you will deploy a Container Engine for Kubernetes cluster, connect to it, and run a sample application using OCI CLI.
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Migrate Tomcat Java Applications to OCI
Explore how to migrate Tomcat to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and connect to an Autonomous Database.
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Additional resources
Learn more about preemptible capacity, burstable instances, autoscaling, GPUs, flexible computing, and more.
Explore more than 150 best-practice designs
See how our architects and other customers deploy a wide range of workloads, from enterprise apps to HPC, from microservices to data lakes. Understand the best practices, hear from other customer architects in our Built & Deployed series, and even deploy many workloads with our "click to deploy" capability—or do it yourself from our GitHub repo.
Popular architectures
- Apache Tomcat with MySQL Database Service
- Oracle Weblogic on Kubernetes with Jenkins
- Machine learning (ML) and AI environments
- Tomcat on Arm with Oracle Autonomous Database
- Log analysis with ELK Stack
- HPC with OpenFOAM
See how much you can save with OCI
Oracle Cloud pricing is simple, with consistent low pricing worldwide, supporting a wide range of use cases. To estimate your low rate, check out the cost estimator and configure the services to suit your needs.
Experience the difference
- 1/4 the outbound bandwidth costs
- 3X the compute price-performance
- Same low price in every region
- Low pricing without long term commitments
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