Virtual Machines–Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Scalable, compute instances on demand

With autoscaling, customers automatically adjust the number of compute instances in a pool to accommodate unexpected demand or save costs when fewer resources are required. We provide multiple access methods for customers via console, command line interface (CLI), or application programming interface (API).

Granular flexibility with VM shapes

With flexible VM instances, customers increase or decrease capacity in minutes by adding CPUs and memory to their existing footprint. Customers choose between 1 to 64 cores, and between 1 and 64 GB per core (up to 1024 GB per instance) to precisely match workload demands and optimize costs.

Range of VM types and configurations

Match workloads with instance type to find your ideal fit:

• Standard instances: choose 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24 cores
• Flex instances: choose from 1 to 64 cores, with 1 to 64 GB RAM per core up to 1024 GB per instance
• Dense I/O instances: choose up to 25.6 TB of NVMe local storage
• GPU instances: select from NVIDIA A100*, V100, and P100 GPUs

*Available soon

Select Intel or AMD processors

Utilize the CPU architecture you prefer, based on workload demands:

• Available on Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC processors (up to 64 cores)
• Up to 1024 GB of memory
• Up to 25.6 TB of local SSD storage
• Up to 1 PB block storage

Lower cost and better economics than AWS

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure virtual machines are optimized for performance, flexibility, and cost. Oracle’s Standard2.4 VM instance is 49% less expensive than an AWS r5.2xlarge instance.

Block storage price-performance advantage

Oracle block volumes are 57% less expensive than the competition and delivers performance that meets or exceeds their offerings. Oracle’s straightforward and globally consistent cloud storage pricing has no provisioning charges for standard IOPS usage, and eliminates the need to use complex pricing formulas to forecast spend.

Gain network efficiency

Oracle Cloud networking infrastructure is fast, predictable, and inexpensive, offering the lowest data egress charges from a major cloud provider (including 10 TB at no charge). Customers with significant data transfer requirements benefit from sizable cost advantages, like our customer 8x8, who saved more than 80% in network outbound costs.

Consistent global pricing

Compute, storage, database, and infrastructure prices are the same across the globe, offering savings of 30% or more relative to competitors in some geographies.

Isolated network virtualization

Prevent attacks on customer tenancies with isolated network virtualization. A foundational element of Oracle Cloud infrastructure’s security-first architecture, the design stops malware in its tracks with a custom-designed SmartNIC to isolate and virtualize the network.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management

Using easy-to-define policies organized by logical groups of users and resources, control not only who has access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources but which ones and the access type. Customers manage identities and grant access by leveraging existing organizational hierarchies and federated directory services, including Microsoft, Okta and other SAML directory providers.

Hardware root of trust

Reduce the risk of firmware-based attacks against Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customer tenants with custom-built, hardware-based, root-of-trust-technology designed to wipe and reinstall the firmware every time a new server is provisioned or a new customer tenancy is established.

Oracle Web Application Firewall

Protect applications from malicious and unwanted internet traffic with a cloud-based, PCI-compliant, global web application firewall (WAF) service. By combining threat intelligence with consistent rule enforcement, this service strengthens defenses and protects internet-facing application servers.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault

Centrally manage and maintain control of the encryption keys and secret credentials used to protect enterprise data and access resources. The security for both are stored in Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2, Level 3-certified, hardware security module (HSM).

Users can further control permissions for individual keys and vaults with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management, and monitor key lifecycle with Oracle Audit to meet enhanced compliance requirements.

Choose from popular operating systems

Oracle supports an extensive list of Microsoft Windows Server and enterprise Linux operating systems, including Oracle Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, and many others. Oracle Autonomous Linux is a free, autonomous operating environment that reduces complexity and human error to deliver increased cost savings, security and availability.

Launch disk images from Oracle and partners

Easily discover and launch images for Oracle Applications and third-party business applications from an expanding ecosystem of Oracle partners.

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Bring your own image (BYOI)

Customers can run their own operating systems and hypervisors on Oracle compute instances and use the same image across configuration sizes.

Container registry

Developers building applications using containers leverage a highly available, Oracle-managed private container registry service for storing and sharing container images. Push or pull Docker images to and from the registry using the Docker V2 API and the standard Docker command line interface (CLI). Images can be pulled directly into a Kubernetes deployment.

Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes

Developers building cloud native applications utilize our managed Kubernetes service to run highly available clusters with the control and security enterprises require. Users can eliminate cluster management and administrative overhead while getting the latest Kubernetes updates automatically and keeping pace with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Oracle Functions

Functions as a service (FaaS) lets developers run serverless applications that integrate with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Cloud Applications, and third-party services. Gain developer efficiency along with the community of the open source Fn Project.