ORACLE Cloud Review
It is headquartered in California and the USA.
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 |
ORACLE Cloud VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Pros and Cons
Weaknesses
- Indecipherable pricing.
ORACLE Cloud Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, ORACLE Cloud also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| 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 | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 75s | 45s | 120s | 3 |
Control Panel Screenshots
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.
| Description | Price / GB |
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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
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/networking/pricing/
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Between 0TB and 10TB: $0.000/GB Above 10TB: $0.008/GB |
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. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
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| Ampere A1 1core 2GB | 1 | 2.0GB | 45GB | $10.50 |
| Ampere A1 2cores 4GB | 2 | 4.0GB | 45GB | $18.72 |
| 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. |
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| E4 2 cores 4GB | 2 | 4.0GB | 45GB | $22.32 |
| 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. |
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| VPSBenchmarks has not tested any plan for this instance type yet. | ||||
| Instance Type: Other |
No description |
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| VM.Standard3.Flex | 2 | 4.0GB | 45GB | $22.32 |
| VM.Standard2.1 (X7) | 2 | 15.0GB | 45GB | $47.00 |