ORACLE Cloud Review
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It offers VPS, Dedicated, Storage and Databases hosting products.
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Quick Links
| ORACLE Cloud plans specs and prices | Plans |
| ORACLE Cloud instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are ORACLE Cloud servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of ORACLE Cloud trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in ORACLE Cloud trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of ORACLE Cloud VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of ORACLE Cloud yabs.sh results | Yabs |
ORACLE Cloud VPS Features
Features not included in VPS prices are marked as missing in the table below.
Pros and Cons
Weaknesses
- Indecipherable pricing.
ORACLE Cloud Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, ORACLE Cloud also sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each ORACLE Cloud VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Median Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
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| 72s | 72s | 55s | 90s | 2 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month & Request Pricing | Description |
Restriction
Extra capacity provisioning |
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| Object |
$0.026
100,000 reads: $0.034 100,000 writes: $0.034 |
Product name: Standard Object Storage
First 10GB and 50000 requests/month free. Requests are then charged at $0.0034 per 10k requests. No charge for egress. ORACLE Cloud object storage |
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| Block | $0.060 |
Product name: Volume Storage Higher Performance
High performance with 20 VPUs. ORACLE Cloud block storage |
IOPS allowance: 0 Throughput price per MBps: Throughput allowance MBps: 0 MBps |
| Block | $0.026 |
Product name: Volume Storage Low Cost
This is Oracle Cloud lower cost block storage with 0 VPU. ORACLE Cloud block storage |
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| Block | $0.043 |
Product name: Volume Storage Balanced
Balanced performance with 10 VPUs. ORACLE Cloud block storage |
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Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by ORACLE Cloud for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 10 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: yes
ORACLE Cloud networking
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Tiered pricing:
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ORACLE Cloud Instance Types and Plans
All ORACLE Cloud instance types
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
Cloud Server Plans
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
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| Family: Compute Virtual Machine Instances Instance Type: Standard3 |
X9-based standard compute. Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8358. Base frequency 2.6 GHz, max turbo frequency 3.4 GHz.
Provider page for instance type:
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htm#flexible
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| Family: Compute Virtual Machine Instances Instance Type: Standard E4 |
E4-based standard compute. Processor: AMD EPYC 7J13. Base frequency 2.55 GHz, max boost frequency 3.5 GHz.
Provider page for instance type:
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htm#vmshapes
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| E4 2 vCPUs 4GB | 2 | 4.0GB | 45GB | $22.32 / month |
| Family: Compute Virtual Machine Instances Instance Type: Ampere A1 |
Ampere A1 Compute Arm-based standard compute. Each OCPU corresponds to a single hardware execution thread. Processor: Ampere Altra Q80-30. Max frequency 3.0 GHz.
Provider page for instance type:
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htm#vmshapes
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| Ampere A1 1core 2GB | 1 | 2.0GB | 45GB | $10.50 / month |
| Ampere A1 2cores 4GB | 2 | 4.0GB | 45GB | $18.72 / month |
| Family: Compute Virtual Machine Instances Instance Type: Standard E5 |
E5-based standard compute. Processor: AMD EPYC 9J14. Base frequency 2.4 GHz, max boost frequency 3.7 GHz.
Provider page for instance type:
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htm#vmshapes
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| E5 2 vCPUs 4GB | 2 | 4.0GB | 45GB | $27.36 / month |
| E5 4 vCPUs 8GB | 4 | 8.0GB | 45GB | $58.54 / month |
| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: Ampere A2 |
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Ampere A2 instances are the second generation of Arm-based compute, powered by AmpereOne processors. These flexible VM shapes offer customizable CPU and memory configurations, delivering higher core counts and improved price-performance for a wide range of cloud-native workloads including containers, databases, web applications, media services, and CPU-based AI/ML inferencing. The architecture features single-threaded cores for enhanced security and predictable performance.
Provider page for instance type:
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/introducing-oci-ampere-a2-arm-cloud-compute
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| A2 4 vCPUs 16GB | 4 | 16.0GB | 0GB | $46.80 / month |
| A2 8 vCPUs 32GB | 8 | 32.0GB | 0GB | $90.00 / month |
| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: Standard E6 |
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Standard E6 instances are designed for general-purpose workloads, offering a balance of compute, memory, and network resources. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors, they provide improved performance compared to previous generations. These instances are suitable for a wide range of applications.
Provider page for instance type:
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htm
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| E6 8 vCPUs 32GB | 8 | 32.0GB | 0GB | $134.32 / month |
| E6 16 vCPUs 32GB | 16 | 32.0GB | 0GB | $226.18 / month |
| Instance Type: Other |
No description
Provider page for instance type:
/hosters/oracle_cloud
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| VM.Standard3.Flex | 2 | 4.0GB | 45GB | $22.32 / month |
| VM.Standard2.1 (X7) | 2 | 15.0GB | 45GB | $47.00 / month |