Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders
Ampere’s Altra gets the gig at a cent-per CPU hour, with managed K8s for starters, managed MySQL coming soon Share
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Oracle has made good on its promise to fire up an Arm-powered cloud by revealing it will offer Ampere s 80-core Altra processors for one US cent per hour per core.
Big Red will offer a single instance type – the A1 – but will offer it as virtual machines scaling up to 80 CPU cores or bare-metal instances running 160 cores. The silicon can be cranked to 3GHz. RAM will cost 0.0015 per GB per hour. VMs can use between one and 64GB of RAM, while a bare metal box can scale to 1TB of memory.
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Oracle Corp. is giving customers more choice and flexibility with the launch of its first Arm-based cloud compute offering on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform.
The new offering, called OCI Ampere A1 Compute, is designed to power both general-purpose and cloud-native workloads that demand high performance at more manageable costs, Oracle said today. It’s based on the Ampere Altra architecture built by Ampere Computing LLC.
Today’s announcement comes as Oracle makes a big investment into the Arm ecosystem more generally, with the availability of more resources and tools, including a new development environment for developers that’s intended to support Arm-based application development.
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Amazon aims to hire 75,000 fulfillment and logistics workers across the U.S. and Canada, the company announced Thursday. Amazon’s fulfillment and logistics network is continuing to grow across the country, a spokesperson said via email, and we are hiring to accommodate that growth.
Average pay will start at more than $17 per hour, and many locations will issue sign-on bonuses of up to $1,000. The company is also offering new hires a $100 benefit, if they come to work already vaccinated for COVID-19, according to the announcement.
For Amazon, this hiring effort targets two facility types: fulfillment centers and delivery stations, the spokesperson said. The company s delivery center footprint, in particular, is undergoing a rapid growth spurt.