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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

The next-generation cloud designed to run any application, faster and more securely, for less.

Free certification for OCI Generative AI

Stay at the forefront of the AI revolution. Get certified on OCI Generative AI for free until July 31.

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New AI-powered OCI Search with OpenSearch 2.11

Developers can now incorporate semantic and generative AI search within their applications, as well as in their observability and security analytics dashboards.

OCI enables sovereign AI worldwide

Address AI sovereignty needs with Oracle’s distributed cloud. Deploy Oracle’s full AI stack in the public cloud or in your data center for increased control of data and AI infrastructure.

Oracle and NVIDIA to Deliver Sovereign AI Worldwide

Oracle and NVIDIA are collaborating to put accelerated computing and generative AI services wherever countries must meet digital sovereignty requirements.

Building the more intelligent future of cloud

Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president of OCI development, shares how Oracle is bringing the cloud and AI to industries worldwide during his keynote at Oracle CloudWorld.

Announcing Oracle Database@Azure

The expanded Oracle-Microsoft partnership, announced by Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella, delivers Oracle database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure.

Learn how to get the most of AI for your business at an Oracle Data
and AI Forum.

A distributed cloud that can be wherever you need it

The only cloud that delivers complete cloud services around the world, across clouds, or in your data center.


1. Multicloud

Make multiple clouds work as one. Oracle offers direct database integration with Microsoft Azure as well as high performance interconnection.

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2. Public cloud

The only cloud with a consistent set of services and consistent low prices across commercial and government public cloud regions.

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Distributed cloud

3. Hybrid cloud

Trusted cloud solutions for nearly any location, including Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, a highly optimized database as a service already deployed in more than 60 countries.

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4. Dedicated cloud

OCI Dedicated Region and Oracle Alloy are the only products that provide more than 100 cloud services at public cloud pricing entirely within your data centers.

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Complete cloud infrastructure and platform services for every workload

OCI offers a common set of 100+ services in each cloud region. Get all the services you need—from containers and VMware to AI—to migrate, modernize, build, and scale your IT. Automate all your workloads, including both existing and new applications and data platforms.

Developer Services

Developer Services

Build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications using developer-friendly tools and services.

Integration Services

Integration Services

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration services connect any application and data source to automate end-to-end processes and centralize management. The broad array of integrations, with prebuilt adapters and low-code customization, simplify migration to the cloud while streamlining hybrid and multicloud operations.

Analytics and BI

Analytics and BI

Gain comprehensive business intelligence with augmented analytics to help your organization grow through unique insights.

AI and Machine Learning

AI and Machine Learning

Easily add intelligence to your applications and workloads with prebuilt perception and decision models and out-of-the-box chatbots, or build and train your own models with our data science services.

Big Data and Data Lake

Big Data and Data Lake

Gain new insights across all of your data with our comprehensive platform of managed Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and Kafka-compatible services, combined with best-in-class data warehouse and data management services.

Compute

Compute

Secure and elastic compute capacity in the cloud that ranges from flexible virtual machines (Flex VMs) and high-performance bare metal servers to HPC and GPUs.

Storage

Storage

Address key use cases with on-demand local, object, file, block, and archive storage.

Containers and Functions

Containers and Functions

Deploy microservices applications on high-performance, managed, open source Docker, Kubernetes, and Fn Functions services.

Networking

Networking

Connect securely to a customizable, isolated virtual cloud network (VCN) as the heart of your cloud deployment. Move data at 25% of the cost of other cloud providers.

Open Source Databases

Open Source Databases

MySQL HeatWave is a fully managed database service, powered by the integrated HeatWave in-memory query accelerator. It’s the only cloud database service that combines transactions, analytics, and machine learning services in one MySQL Database, delivering real-time, secure analytics without the complexity, latency, and cost of ETL duplication.

Security, Observability and Management, Compliance, and Cost Management and Governance

Security, Observability and Management, Compliance, and Cost Management and Governance

Protect your most valuable data in the cloud with Oracle’s security-first approach and comprehensive compliance programs. Oracle provides visibility and machine-learning–driven insights to ease management across all layers of the stack deployed on any technology, anywhere.

Global Cloud Data Center Infrastructure
48 Commercial and Government Regions | Cloud@Customer | Dedicated Regions | Edge Devices

Global Cloud Data Center Infrastructure

Global, secure, high-performance environments to move, build, and run all your workloads. Hybrid and edge offerings provide specialized deployment, disconnected and intermittently connected operation, low latency and high performance, as well as data locality and security.

Run IT for a lot less with ease

Save money without inflexible up-front commitments. In contrast to others, OCI has the same low price in all cloud regions, including government and dedicated regions. We offer innovative features, such as flexible compute, auto-tuning storage, up to 10X lower data egress fees, and free tools and reports to help eliminate needless overpayment and billing surprises. Committed use discounts, software license portability, and loyalty rewards are also available.

NETWORK

1/4

The cost for outbound bandwidth1,2

COMPUTE

>3X

Better price-performance2,3

STORAGE

20X

Base IOPS for half the price4,5

Cloud infrastructure and applications everywhere

Oracle Cloud spans 48 interconnected geographic commercial and government cloud regions. Unlike other providers, each region offers a consistent set of more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, with consistent low pricing worldwide. For more complete support of customer cloud strategies, Oracle Cloud also offers a full suite of Oracle Cloud Applications and direct interconnection with Microsoft Azure.

Oracle Cloud data center global distribution map, details below

Oracle data centers are distributed around the world.

Oracle data centers by Region
Region Current Regions Regions Coming soon Azure Interconnect
North America 13 0 4
South America 5 0 1
Europe 15 0 3
Middle East & Africa 5 3 1
Asia Pacific 10 0 3

Technology and industry solutions

Resolve your organization’s unique challenges, make data-driven decisions, and increase efficiency with OCI’s purpose-built solutions.

Deutsche Bank taps Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer to reduce energy use by 50%.
  • Financial services cloud infrastructure

    Financial services institutions benefit from OCI’s secure, reliable, and highly scalable multicloud platform, which offers robust services and an accelerated AI infrastructure with the broadest set of deployment options to meet your data residency requirements.

  • Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer

    Meet all your business and technology objectives for an on-premises database cloud deployment with Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer.

A large healthcare cooperative expands their EMR rollout on OCI to 300 branches to slash IT spending by 25%.
  • Healthcare cloud infrastructure

    Benefit from a single unified platform to run every healthcare workload—from legacy applications to AI/ML-enabled services—to enhance the patient experience, decrease the cost of care, and enable precision medicine.

  • Modernize your healthcare enterprise

    Realize the value of data—use all the available data sources to help improve patient outcomes and provide a seamless healthcare experience.

Kansas goes live with its critical KEES Health and Human Services (HHS) system in only one weekend.
  • Oracle Cloud for Government

    Many defense, intelligence community, and federal civilian agencies across the globe rely on Oracle Cloud for Government to modernize and innovate faster for better mission outcomes. Oracle Cloud provides world-class security and compliance, consistent high performance, and simple and predictable pricing.

  • Oracle Cloud Isolated Region

    Dedicated to serving governments and safeguarding global defense missions at hyperscale, this innovative cloud solution includes a fully integrated infrastructure with IaaS/PaaS/SaaS and industry-leading price-performance.

A large telco turns to OCI to migrate 8,000 workloads and reduce customer service time by 50%.
  • Oracle for telcos

    Oracle Cloud for telcos is a comprehensive set of cloud solutions built on OCI to help telcos become more agile, reduce capital investments and operating costs, and establish a flexible foundation for innovation.

  • Run any IT and OSS/BSS app 50% faster for less

    Use Oracle’s database clustering and massive I/O to maintain near zero-downtime environments while improving performance by 50% or more compared with on-premises or other clouds.

Get started with OCI

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 Autonomous Database, Arm Compute, and Storage, as well as US$300 in free credits to try additional cloud services. Get the details and sign up for your free account today.

  • What’s included with Oracle Cloud Free Tier?

    • 2 Autonomous Databases, 20 GB each
    • AMD and Arm Compute VMs
    • 200 GB total block storage
    • 10 GB object storage
    • 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 step-by-step guidance

Experience a wide range of OCI services through tutorials and hands-on labs. Whether you're a developer, admin, or analyst, we can help you see how OCI works. Many labs run on the Oracle Cloud Free Tier or an Oracle-provided free lab environment.

  • Get started with OCI core services

    The labs in this workshop cover an introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) core services including virtual cloud networks (VCN) and compute and storage services.

    Start OCI core services lab now
  • Autonomous Database quick start

    In this workshop, you’ll go through the steps to get started using Oracle Autonomous Database.

    Start Autonomous Database quick start lab now
  • Build an app from a spreadsheet

    This lab walks you through uploading a spreadsheet into an Oracle Database table, and then creating an application based on this new table.

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  • Deploy an HA application on OCI

    In this lab you’ll deploy web servers on two compute instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), configured in High Availability mode by using a Load Balancer.

    Start HA application lab now

Explore over 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

Explore our informative events series featuring the latest announcements, customer conversations, product-specific insights, technical sessions, and hands-on labs.

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    • What workloads run best on OCI?
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    • How does OCI compare to other cloud computing providers?
    • How can OCI support your IaaS and PaaS goals?