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.
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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.