Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Score8.1 out of 10

375 Reviews and Ratings

What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracles's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform which combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Global Footprint

2-5x Faster Performance vs On-premises and Other Clouds (Storage Review)

One Cloud for the Most Intensive Enterprise and Infra-heavy Workloads

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Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
Category average: 8.4
Dynamic scaling
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
Category average: 8.7
Elastic load balancing
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
Category average: 8.9

Pre-defined machine images
Range of different server configurations available
Category average: 8.2
Operating system support
Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
Category average: 8.2
Pre-configured templates
Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
Category average: 7.7

Sharang Dwivedi View profile

Database Engineer in Information Technology at Giesecke+Devrient (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The main reason for using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the Oracle database services provided in OCI like Autonomous database, Oracle Base Service and Exadata etc. Oracle is putting lots of innovations in it's Oracle database running into OCI and features being released first in the Oracle cloud. For our product cloud journey we were looking for the best place to run the Oracle database.

Pros

Autonomous database.
Oracle Database Base service.
We can start with the small size of the Oracle Database scale-up as demand grows as opposed to the On-Premise Oracle Database setup.
No upfront investment in Oracle Database.
The latest and greatest feature is firstly available in the OCI for Oracle Database.

Cons

Costs are still high for using the Oracle Database.
Oracle Cloud is still lacking lots of good features which is available in the clouds like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
There should be open-source options & services available in the OCI.

Return on Investment

It is not a good option if your application uses a database other than Oracle.
Limited open-source features in OCI creates vendor lock issue.
Limited options are available as compared with Azure and AWS.

Alternatives Considered

Azure Cloud Services

Other Software Used

Oracle Autonomous Database, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Exadata

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am fairly new to using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in my team. I started learning and using it when the requirement in my team was raised for many reason like scalability, pricing flexibility and security for oracle servers. We use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for the pre-prod and Prod servers. Oracle provides a nice feasibility to manage VM instance and solutions for the resolving issues and growing need of business. So far its been a great experience.

Pros

Sacalibitly
Management
Availability
Cost Saving

Cons

Support team
Guide Documents

Return on Investment

OCI maintains an extensive compliance program
Data is encrypted for each customer
Customers can control the data they store

Other Software Used

Jenkins, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Microsoft Visual Studio

Shivanand Labbi

Senior software engineer in Information Technology at Manhattan (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as our cloud provider for one of the biggest supply chain provider organizations in the world. All our 500+ customers are hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and everything is going as expected with it. Initially, we never had our own infra so we were dependent on customers' owned infra and managing each infrastructure from customer to customer for us was a critical task. So with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we hosted all our applications in one place and we are giving them as a SAAS product.

Pros

More Reliability and especially Oracle Database
Pricing is really impressive
UI is very easy to manage and has explanation for each step
Easily integrated to other clouds as well

Cons

They should introduce messaging queue like pub/sub or sqs
When major outage comes we see delay in communication from them
Customer support needs an improvement
MySQL and some more services

Return on Investment

First it generated a lot of income as we provide full service as SAAS.
Since we have all customers on one cloud, managing and applying fixes is very easy for us.
Customers are also happy because they had to spend a lot of money on having their own infra and managing that.

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud Platform, AWS Cloud9 and Azure Cloud Services

Other Software Used

Azure Cloud Services, Splunk AppDynamics, Google Kubernetes Engine, IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM webMethods, Jenkins

Usability

Johanes Siregar View profile

Risk Insight Product in Information Technology at Telkomsel (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a virtualized environment to provide a save environment for testing new and emerging communication services like Virtual Private Network (VPN), Unified Communications (UC), or other tailored service offerings, which promotes rapid and agile service innovation and deployment leading to enhanced customer experiences and operational efficiency improvements.

Pros

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Network Function Virtualization provides a secure and scalable environment for experimentation which enable performance and feasibility assessment of a service
Robust Security Features, including Identity and Access Management (IAM) and encryption
Ability to scale resource up or down on-demand eliminating significant upfront costs

Cons

Uniformity in design and user experience across all services to improve usability
more comprehensive step-by-step guides and usecase-specific tutorials
built-in cost monitoring enhancement for more proactive and control in expenses management

Return on Investment

Utilizing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure we can reduce time-to-market for new services by 30%
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure automation tools improves profitability by reducing operating costs by 25%
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure robust security controls and compliance certifications are instrumental in mitigating risk which evidence with a 40% decrease in security incicents-related costs

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure

Other Software Used

Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, Apache Spark, GitLab, Microsoft Power BI, Promethium Data Navigation System

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are extensively using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in our organization which includes IaaS, SaaS and PaaS services. With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure we are easily able to deploy the applications without much involvement of other infrastructure team. With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure management of Databases is very easy and with autonomous databases, we don't have to worry about maintenance work like patches, backups etc.

Pros

Autonomous operations of databases without much human interventions.
Easy scalability of infrastructure like, compute, storage etc.
Highest security because of data encryption and data masking.

Cons

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure could provide better integration with third-party tools and applications.
Migration from legacy system is challenging with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is expensive for mid cap companies

Return on Investment

Less human resources are required to manage databases decreasing the overall IT budget.
With instant scalability, we dont have to make a projection about the requirement prior.
Easy to create and destroy instances saves overall infrastructure costs.

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services

Other Software Used

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform

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Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

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Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Pre-configured templates

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