Item: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Rating: 6
Author: Michael Hu

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We provide a fast backbone for hybrid clouds. OCI is part of our hybrid cloud solution.

Pros and Cons

Great designed API/SDK.
Stable infrastructure.
Regional IP support.

UI navigation needs some improvement - Network and computer should be easy to jump between.
Lacking filtering function in instance UI.
The instance summary page should show IP for each instance so that the user does not need to click each one to see IP.

Return on Investment

Get up and running quickly with clear documentation.
Performance is much better than Azure but lagging behind AWS.
Support is relatively slow and lacking knowledge.

Membership in Oracle User Groups

Not yet, but I'm interested in Oracle user groups

Key Insights

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

Not sure

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

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

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure again?

Yes

The free tier is good for consumers, and it is a good platform for beginners. However, for big cloud consumers, it is lacking some automation like route propagation between VPC and DRG. VPC peering is super slow as well.

Great platform to get started on your cloud journey

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)