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Oracle Corporation provides an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) designed to assist companies in creating, deploying, and overseeing workloads and applications in the cloud.
OCI includes infrastructure services like processing capacity, storage, networking, and database administration that assist companies with creating workloads with high performance, scalability, and security requirements ranging from web apps to complex enterprise apps. To facilitate application development and deployment, it also offers extra security services as well as analytics/artificial intelligence applications/services.
What Is Oracle Cloud?
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's global data centers offer servers, storage devices, networks, applications, and data management to support on-premises environments as well as multi-cloud, dedicated, and hybrid clouds and this subscription-based service helps clients implement, streamline, and oversee workloads and enterprise apps hosted in the cloud.
Oracle Cloud offers software as a service (SaaS), data as a service (DaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and infrastructure management as a service (IMaaS), all accessible over the internet for on-demand use.
Access is through one application programming interface for virtualized multi-tenant deployment and bare metal compute services with load balancing, machine learning capabilities, and autonomous databases, all provided through Oracle Cloud's single API for on-demand usage of services offered through IaaS services through IP networks worldwide.
Important Oracle OCI Features
Performance Metrics
Monitor KPIs associated with your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Several technologies supported by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure include big data analytics, database management, and computer storage networking security.
Applications Manager's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure monitoring feature gives an in-depth view of its processing power.
Applications Manager provides the Oracle Cloud Monitoring service, which allows you to do the following:
- Keep tabs on all aspects of your PC in real-time.
- Monitor how much memory and CPU resources are consumed by apps running in your environment.
- Be mindful to monitor boot volumes regularly.
- Effectively manage block volumes.
- Ensure that your network operates as effectively as it can.
- Combat issues efficiently and produce reports.
Health Checks
Monitor and assess the condition and health of your computer instances by employing computer infrastructure health metrics.
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Instance Health Status (up/down): The instance status metric can help measure whether an operating bare metal instance is available (up) or unavailable (down), making for easier troubleshooting when something goes amiss.
If a model becomes inaccessible for over thirty minutes, seek assistance immediately.
- Status of Instance Maintenance: To see if an instance requires scheduled infrastructure maintenance, utilize the maintenance status metric.
Monitoring infrastructure on bare metal instances uses the health status metric, providing insight into hardware such as RAM and CPU status.
Alarm Notification
AlarmQuery evaluates notification destinations and additional alarm features when the alarm has been activated, guiding for managing alerts.
To evaluate alarms using MQL expressions is best. An alarm query must include measures, statistics, intervals, and trigger rules (threshold or absence). When running the question using Time Series Data from the Monitoring Service Alarms Feature, the results for every given time series are translated by the Monitoring service into Boolean values where zero indicates false and nonzero indicates true (if this value exists, it means your trigger rule condition has been satisfied).
Instance Pool Updates
Before monitoring resources using the Console or REST API with an SDK, CLI, or other tool, you must first be granted appropriate permission by an administrator by an established policy.
Your access must enable access to monitored resources and monitoring services under this policy.
Subscription Management Tools
Subscription-based orders, automated billing and payments, support for multiple pricing models, fixed recurring charges with flexible revenue recognition features, and AI-driven analytics are among the many hallmarks of excellence for modern eCommerce operations.
Content Management Tools
Digital asset management, taxonomy-driven content personalization, video streaming, and AI/ML-enhanced content creation all fall under this platform's purview, with machine tagging for content recommendations and support for over 40 languages among its many features.
B2B Commerce Tools
Account and contact management, delegated administration, account hierarchies, embedded content management tools, and buyer interactions can all play an integral part in customer-focused merchandising strategies and workflows not to mention customer experience (CX) and ERP integrations.
Just a few examples exist here.
B2C Commerce Tools
Unified direct and wholesale sales platform featuring headless API, search and guided navigation capabilities, and catalog and inventory management features.
Pricing Tools
Multi-tier pricing, subscription ordering, PayPal integration, self-service ordering, and support for over 60 currencies make our platform remarkable.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Benefits
Superior Performance
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's design facilitates high-performance applications requiring stateful database connections, raw processing using CPUs or GPUs, millions of storage IOPS, and gigabit per second throughput such as stateful database connections and basic processing using CPUs/GPUs; all depend on being persistent high-performance applications that Oracle autonomous database is built for.
Non-blocking networks ensure low latency and peak performance across all resources, using cutting-edge CPUs, GPUs, networking equipment, and storage technologies such as NVMe SSD drives to provide services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
OCI currently provides 51.2TB of NVMe solid-state storage in bare metal instances capable of processing millions of read/write transactions per second. According to third-party testing, Oracle cloud guard computing and storage provide 2-5 times greater I/O performance compared to comparable on-premises or AWS offerings with low latency.
Such phenomenal performance helps increase productivity while creating faster results for end users; for instance, financial operations at Maritz Marketing Agency used to take two hours but now take only 10.
Superior Economics
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute services can often be up to 50% less expensive than their AWS or Azure counterparts.
Customers who wish to create more targeted instances than standard "t-shirt-sized" instances can pay and configure cases with precisely the memory and core count needed, saving time and money compared to similar cloud offerings from competitors.
Oracle storage costs up to 95% less than competing databases and block storage requirements providers. Up to 10TB of outbound bandwidth each month is free; once that threshold has been passed, we only charge a portion of what other cloud providers charge.
All global regions - including government regions in the US and UK - provide daily affordable prices due to our consistent margin-adding practices while still offering significant cost-cutting savings over other cloud providers; international pricing only differs regarding outbound bandwidth pricing.
Built-In Security
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's foundational principle of zero trust allows tenants to operate freely while remaining wholly separated from Oracle and one another.
Clean separation between instances is enabled through segregated network virtualization and custom hardware root of trust solutions, with each sample being reimaged before being provided to clients Oracle Cloud offers multiple layers of protection through default data encryption, most minor privilege identity and access management, and fine-grained resource and network control to the edge. In addition, this platform employs stringent code security development and deployment procedures and an in-house compliance team that regularly examines new regions and services while acting as the center for a round-the-clock Security Operations Centre to thwart attacks.
Comprehensive Regional Accessibility And All-Inclusive Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Oracle Cloud free tier currently operates cloud regions around the globe and plans to add many more in future locations.
To maintain data sovereignty and provide true disaster recovery capabilities, they plan to set up two geographically distinct cloud zones per country - in the Asia Pacific- Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Chuncheon, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Sydney, and Melbourne.
Oracle provides several hybrid cloud options if the government and multi tenant public regions need to fit your requirements.
Oracle products and services can all be found within its fully managed Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud Customer environment.
Oracle Fusion cloud app and public cloud infrastructure services seamlessly integrate into your data center while meeting stringent latency requirements, offering high-performance services at reduced costs using consumption-based subscription pricing models.
Robust Developer Tools And APIs
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure RESTful APIs facilitate secure HTTP connections for handling requests and responses using RESTful architecture.
Oracle Cloud offers an easy API encompassing command-line access and standard SDKs in Java, Python, Typescript Javascript.NET Go, and Ruby that allows developers and enterprises to automate large-scale workloads efficiently and without modification required by using virtualized infrastructure with different APIs for multi tenant virtual machines (VMs) as well as dedicated single-tenant physical hosts with single-tenant virtual machines (VMs) using Terraform automation features and built-in cloud init features and Terraform automation for deployment/manage.
You can deploy/manage multi VMs/physical hosts using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using one set of APIs; multi VMs can even deploy/manage multi-tenant virtual machines before deployment onto dedicated physical hosts without modification of code required either way without alteration to code base or vice versa without alteration required changes within code base or code base.
Drawbacks Of Oracle Cloud
The drawbacks of Oracle Cloud include the following:
- Poor Integrations: According to Gartner research, Oracle Cloud does have limited integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and tight relationships with Microsoft Azure and VMware; however, its support of non-Oracle products still needs to be improved.
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Oracle Cloud needs an ecosystem of third parties: While AWS and Microsoft each boast robust developer support for their respective cloud platforms, developers may be deterred from participating by Oracle's low market share.
This may explain why less third-party support exists for Oracle.
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Oracle Database Apps Integrating With Oracle Cloud: Oracle has earned itself an unfavorable brand image due to years of strict compliance enforcement and inconsistent sales and support services, according to Gartner's 2024 Magic Quadrant report.
As such, many customers integrating their applications with the database remain with the provider.
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Obstacles for small and midsize enterprises (SMBs): OCI is typically tailored towards larger organizations and requires IT experts with deep domain knowledge for successful implementation.
This poses difficulties to smaller SMBs who need more resources.
Conclusion
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a cost-effective cloud platform designed to meet the growing demands of modern businesses.
Developers and IT can take advantage of OCI to run existing workloads or develop cloud-native apps quickly and cost-efficiently while the first public cloud built from scratch to be superior for every application is provided here by OCI itself. In this tutorial, we cover some fundamental aspects of this revolutionary solution.
