Compute
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides fast, flexible, and affordable compute capacity to fit any workload need, from high performance bare metal servers and flexible VMs to lightweight containers and serverless computing.
OCI consumption revenue has grown 88% year over year (Q2 FY2023 earnings). Hear why customers are choosing us.
Oracle’s 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 Kubernetes and containers.
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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 services customer successes
OCI is recognized as a Visionary in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services.
Compare OCI Compute to other cloud providers
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure consistently delivers better price performance than other cloud providers.
3X
better compute price performance
20X
higher IOPS/GB for block storage
4.8X
more IOPS for bare metal instances
44%
lower compute costs for HPC
Dive deeper into OCI compute, storage, and networking.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's compute services
Virtual Machines
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Flexible VMs
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Virtual machine-based (VM) 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 for their workload needs.
- 1–64 cores of AMD EPYC processors; 1 to 1024 GB RAM; also available as burstable instances and preemptible instances
- 1–32 cores of Intel processors; 1 to 512 GB of memory
- 1–18 cores of Intel processors; 1 to 256 GB RAM
- Network bandwidth and virtual network interfaces scale proportionally to number of cores
- Select shapes are available as confidential instances
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Standard VMs
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VM shapes provide a balance of processor cores, memory, and network resources.
- Intel or AMD processors
- 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, or 24 cores
- 15–320 GB of memory
- 1–24.6 Gbps of network bandwidth
- Select shapes are available as preemptible 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
- 120–320 GB of memory
- 6.4 TB–25.6 TB of NVMe SSD
- 8.2–24.6 Gbps of network bandwidth
- 8–24 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 Tesla V100 GPUs
- Intel processors
- 6, 12, or 24 cores
- 16–64 GB of GPU memory
- 90–360 GB of CPU memory
- 4–24.6 Gbps of network bandwidth
- 6–24 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.
- Intel processors with maximum frequency of 3.6 GHz
- 1–18 cores
- 1–256 GB of memory
- 4–40 Gbps of network bandwidth
- 2–18 virtual network interfaces
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Dedicated VM hosts
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Dedicated VM Host Shapes offer bare metal servers provisioned with software to host VMs.
- Intel or AMD processors
- 52–128 cores per host
- 512–2048 GB of memory per host
Bare Metal
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Standard bare metal servers
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Bare metal servers provide a balance of cores, memory, and network resources.
- Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC processors
- 52–128 cores
- 768 to 2,048 GB range of memory
- Up to 2 x 50 Gbps of network bandwidth
- 101–256 virtual network interfaces
- Select shapes are available as confidential instances
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Dense I/O bare metal servers
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Bare metal servers equipped with high-performance local storage and optimized for large databases and big data workloads.
- 52 cores
- 768 GB of memory
- 51.2 TB of NVMe SSD
- Up to 52 virtual network interfaces
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GPU-accelerated bare metal servers
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Bare metal servers equipped with NVIDIA graphics processors in addition to Intel or AMD processors.
- Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC processors
- Up to 64 cores
- Up to 2,048 GB of CPU memory
- 8 GPUs of NVIDIA V100 or NVIDIA A100
- Up to 320 GB of GPU memory
- Up to 27.2 TB of NVMe SSD
- Up to 50 Gbps of network bandwidth and 8 x 200 Gbps of RDMA bandwidth
- Up to 64 virtual network interfaces
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HPC bare metal servers
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Bare metal servers for high performance computing (HPC) workloads that require high frequency processor cores and cluster networking.
- 36 cores
- 384 GB
- 6.4 TB NVMe SSD
- Up to 2 x 50 Gbps of network bandwidth and 1 x 100 Gbps of RDMA bandwidth
- Up to 50 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 these types of virtual machines, bare metal servers and GPU instances:
- Flexible VMs
- Standard VMs
- Dense I/O VMs
- Standard bare metal servers
- Dense I/O bare metal servers
- HPC bare metal servers
- 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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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
- 2304 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 spend 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
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Compute reference architectures
Compute solutions built and deployed on OCI
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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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