Oracle Debuts Its First Arm-based Cloud Instances (siliconangle.com) 22
Oracle is giving customers more choice and flexibility with the launch of its first Arm-based cloud compute offering on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. From a report: 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. 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.
Arm's central processing units are known for their extremely efficient, flexible and scalable architecture. They're most prominently used in smaller devices such as smartphones, but in more recent years they have come to power everything from personal computers and "internet of things" devices to computer servers and even supercomputers. Oracle said its new Arm compute instances come in a range of options and sizes to fit just about any workload, with choices including what it says are the industry's first Arm-based flexible virtual machine shapes that can be right-sized for different jobs. There are also more powerful bare metal server options.
Arm's central processing units are known for their extremely efficient, flexible and scalable architecture. They're most prominently used in smaller devices such as smartphones, but in more recent years they have come to power everything from personal computers and "internet of things" devices to computer servers and even supercomputers. Oracle said its new Arm compute instances come in a range of options and sizes to fit just about any workload, with choices including what it says are the industry's first Arm-based flexible virtual machine shapes that can be right-sized for different jobs. There are also more powerful bare metal server options.
Gotta read this carefully... (Score:5, Insightful)
Ampere-Oracle joint press release probably instigated this story and the motivations are:
1) Ampere because they want other would-be customers to think Oracle is making a big capital commitment to their processors when all the announcement says is that Oracle is making "OCI Ampere A1 Compute" available to customers, not that Oracle is laying in a big infrastructure ahead of time.
2) Oracle likes this just to remind people that they're innovative and still have a cloud business in case no one remembered.
Re:Gotta read this carefully... (Score:4, Insightful)
Oracle is the king of reacting to others by announcing the same thing. I tend to believe this is exactly that along with the number 1 you listed.
Oracle has probably been looking for a way to claim they offer Arm instances like Amazon for a year now.
Oracle is shit. Their licensing is awful, their cloud services suck and they are evil.
Re:Gotta read this carefully... (Score:5, Funny)
Oracle tech support is the only one that I've ever had tell me, "Format and reinstall Windows, then reinstall the client" and then hang up on me. The problem turned out to be the DBA forgot a hyphen in the connect string when typing up his documentation, then went on vacation. When he got back he knew immediately what was wrong from the error message that I had tried to read to the Oracle tech before he cut me off.
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How Much? (Score:3)
How many dollars per clock cycle are we talking about? This is Oracle we're talking about here. Nothing they do is priced within the realm of reason.
Re:How Much? (Score:5, Funny)
An ARM, and a leg...
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For now. Once it gets popular and people's businesses start to depend on it, I'm sure the prices will go up 1000x. Just look at what they did with Java licensing after taking over SUN.
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It's for 1 ARM core and 1GB of RAM. That's basically a quarter of a Raspberry Pi.
Cloud is super-expensive once you get into the nitty gritty of it. I work for a fairly big organization. C-level executives want "cloud first", so we set up Amazon AWS, now we need Active Directory, now we need data storage, synchronize processes, look a database, you need a private network, now we need security agents (which Amazon won't let you run just any agents).
After a few months this was the paraphrased meeting with the
Larry needs more money! (Score:2)
Send it now! All of it! he needs another Hawaiian island!
Re: cyberbullied by mega corporations. (Score:1)
No one cares about your Internet problems.
Gather your lawyers... (Score:3)
If Oracle doesn't like what you're doing on their cloud, they'll sue you....
Re: Gather your lawyers... (Score:2)
Who? (Score:3)
Oracle is like some kind of tech zombie.
Oracle Burned Karma Like Firewood (Score:3)
Whaaaaaat? (Score:2)
Oracle has a cloud?
Free Tier (Score:2)
- 2 0.125 OCPU, 1GB-RAM x64 compute instances
- 4 Ampere core, 24GB RAM, assignable to up to 4 VM
- 2 block volumes, total 200GB (so at most 2 VM if you don't want to pay)
- 10TB egress per month
- 2 * 20GB Oracle 19c+ "autonomous" database. By "autonomous", it means stupid Oracle maintenance jobs will fill up the 20GB data in a few months, and you can't free that up.
(I am unable to create Ampere VM yet. Always g