Oracle is offering Arm instances powered by Ampere’s Altra processors at one cent per core hour as enterprises look to deploy more Arm-based workloads.
Cloud major Oracle has announced its first Arm-based compute offering called OCI Ampere A1 Compute that will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) at only one cent per core hour, the industrys lowest cost per core. The offering means that customers can run cloud-native and general-purpose workloads on Arm instances with significant price-performance benefits. The increasingly distributed nature of work means modern applications don t just live in the Cloud, it lives at the edge. In Asia Pacific, this is being driven by smart industry-edge applications, real-time analytics and IoT, as businesses seek to improve operations and deliver new experiences to their customers, said Chris Chelliah, SVP, Technology and Customer Strategy, Asia Pacific & Japan.
Oracle is investing in the Arm ecosystem, providing developers with more choice in compute instances and the best price-performance, compared to any other x86 instance on a per core basis.
Oracle has launched an ARM-based compute offering on its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), OCI Ampere A1 Compute.
The offering includes a range of tools, solutions, and support for the platform based on ARM-based processors, which also includes flexible VM sizing to allow customers to customise based on memory and core requirements.
Oracle said the solution aims to help customers run cloud-native and general-purpose workloads on ARM instances with “significant price-performance benefits”.
The service is available in either a bare metal instance, a dual-socket 164 instance with 1 TB memory, or a flexible virtual machine. Oracle Cloud Free Tier also gives developers US$300 in free credits for 30 days.
iTWire Wednesday, 26 May 2021 01:45 Oracle Cloud now provides Arm CPUs at one cent per core hour Featured
Oracle today announced a new range of Arm compute instances based on Ampere’s ARM processors along with the tools and support to accelerate Arm-based application development. The new Arm offerings clock in at a single cent per core hour, the industry’s lowest cost per core.
The x86 processor market largely warded off competition from SPARC, MIPS, PowerPC and Titanium options from the 1980s through the early 2000s, becoming the dominant CPU format. Today it’s a different story, with x86, GPUs and ARM.