Oracle Cloud

Entry plans and the real monthly bill

In US dollars, per month, as listed by Oracle Cloud (All regions (OCI prices are the same in every region)). IPv4 added where it's charged separately.

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Where Oracle Cloud has datacenters

43 in 27 countries, as listed by Oracle Cloud.

Where it stands among 43

Each fact with every host's answer. Oracle Cloud is outlined.

Add-ons and extra charges

Public IPv4

Included OCI's price list has no public IP item; the Always Free micro VM includes one public IP and reserved IPs carry no feature charge

Automatic backups

Not stated Five volume backups in Always Free

Snapshots

Not stated Backup storage rate not stated in the cited text

Extra traffic

$8.50 per TB $0.0085 per GB after the first 10 TB a month, which is free

How you pay

Hourly billing

YesYes Per-second billing after a 1-minute minimum for VMs

Minimum term

None (per second) Pay As You Go has no commitment; no minimums or prepayment

Setup fee

Not stated No setup fee wording in the cited pages

Always-free server

Always Free: 2 AMD VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro VMs (1/8 OCPU, 1 GB) and Ampere A1 up to 1,500 OCPU-hours and 9,000 GB-hours a month, with 200 GB block storage Idle A1 instances can be reclaimed

New-account credit

$300 for up to 30 days In select countries

Payment methods

Card Credit cards and debit cards that work like credit cards; no PIN debit, virtual or prepaid cards

Signup checks

Card used for identity verification, with a temporary authorization hold; one free account per person

Refunds

None stated No money-back period stated for trial or paid use

What you get

Processors

AMD EPYC (E-series), Ampere (A1 Arm) E5 runs on 4th-gen AMD EPYC

ARM servers

YesYes Ampere A1 shapes

IPv6 included

Not statedNot stated IPv6 is supported; whether it is charged isn't stated

What comes with it

Block storage

YesYes Detachable block volumes; the price list shows $0.0255 per GB of capacity, with performance units extra

Object storage

YesYes With an Amazon S3 Compatibility API

Private network

YesYes VCN private IPs

Cloud firewall

YesYes Managed Network Firewall service

Load balancers

YesYes Flexible Network Load Balancer at no cost

DDoS protection included

Not statedNot stated Not stated in the cited text; the WAF adds Layer 7 protection

Managed databases

oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL Oracle AI Database, MySQL HeatWave, OCI Database with PostgreSQL

Managed Kubernetes

YesYes Kubernetes Engine (OKE)

API

YesYes REST APIs

Terraform provider

YesYes OCI Terraform provider

Custom ISO

Not statedNot stated Custom images can be imported; ISO upload isn't documented in the cited text

Windows

Extra licence fee per OCPU Windows Server licence billed per OCPU per second on top of compute

Who you're renting from

Company

Oracle Corporation

Owned by

Independent No parent company named

Based in

United States Austin, Texas

Founded

2016 Year OCI launched (October 2016); Oracle was founded in 1977

Support

Chat for Free Tier accounts (limited); Oracle says enterprise support is included in OCI prices

Certifications

ISO 27001, ISO 27017, PCI DSS OCI-wide; Oracle also lists SOC reports

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