Item: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Rating: 9
Author: Pranay Jain

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for running the dev, staging, and production environment of multiple services. We use VM, Kubernetes service, and database services for running the majority of the application. The benefits we have seen are highly available, scalable, and robust infrastructure at a low cost as compared to other providers in the market. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides direct support of Terraform which helps our infra team to create and scale infrastructure quickly.

Pros and Cons

Database services are best in class
Services are highly available and scalable
Datacentres are available in almost all the regions
It's good for running the microservices application in Kubernetes

Limited OS images for Virtual Machines
Depends on third party services for CI-CD automation
User Interface is very out-dated
Currently, the community is very small so some troubleshooting takes more time

Return on Investment

They have more than 50 regions that help us in scaling the application
Cost of hosting the Dev, Staging, and Prod reduced by 30-35%

Support Rating

Their support is generally good. I would like to see 24/7 on-call support for all the regions in the future.

Implementation

We are using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for running the multiple tiers of the application like dev, staging, and production. We generally create this infra by using the terraform templates. From the database point of view, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides multiple options of SQL and NoSQL databases with pay-as-you-go model licensing. We haven't used Oracle Cloud Lift services yet in our company.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode and UpCloud

Key Insights

Do you think Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's feature set?

Yes

Did Oracle Cloud Infrastructure live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure again?

Yes

Other Software Used

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for running the application that requires minimum cloud-based services. The services are highly available and scalable at minimum cost. Oracle has high-quality services but I feel they are still growing in the market and not all the services are available in their services catalog which is required for running the large application.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Highly available, Scalable and Cost Effective

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure