In its latest move to distinguish itself in a field that tightened up years ago, Oracle Cloud last week formally launched its first series of VM-based and bare-metal compute instances based on Arm processors — specifically, the 80-core Ampere Altra. Oracle had been hosting these new “A1” instances for select customers.
“Oracle is the only cloud provider offering Arm instances in what I’m calling a ‘penny-core,’” said Bev Clark, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s senior VP for compute, speaking with DCK. “It’s one cent per core-hour, with our flexible VM sizing from 1 to 80 OCPUs, or bare-metal servers, with 160 cores and a terabyte of memory.”
