Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on Oracle’s global network of data centers. This FAQ guide is designed to help you understand OCI’s core offerings, differentiators, and how it can support your enterprise workloads. Whether you’re an IT architect, developer, or business decision-maker, these questions will illuminate the capabilities of Oracle Cloud. For insights into multi-cloud strategies, cost optimization across platforms, or specialized OCI management, resources like State of Cloud can provide valuable assistance.
I. Oracle Cloud (OCI) Fundamentals
1. What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)?
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a deep and broad platform of public cloud services that enables customers to build and run a wide range of applications in a scalable, secure, highly available, and high-performance environment. It’s built from the ground up to be an “Enterprise Cloud,” often focusing on mission-critical workloads.
2. What are the key differentiators of OCI?
OCI differentiates itself with:
- Price-Performance: Often offering better performance for lower or comparable costs, especially for high-performance computing (HPC) and database workloads.
- Bare Metal & Dedicated Resources: Providing bare metal servers for maximum performance and isolation.
- Oracle Database Expertise: Unmatched capabilities for running Oracle Databases, including Autonomous Database.
- Security-First Design: Strong focus on security at all layers.
- Enterprise Focus: Tailored for enterprise applications (e.g., Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards).
- Predictable Pricing: Consistent global pricing and lower outbound data transfer costs.
3. What are OCI Regions and Availability Domains (ADs)?
Regions are localized geographic areas where OCI hosts its data centers. Each Region is independent and can contain multiple Availability Domains (ADs). ADs are isolated, fault-tolerant data centers within a Region, connected by a low-latency, high-bandwidth network. Some newer OCI regions may have a single AD or multiple fault domains within a single AD architecture.
4. What is an OCI Fault Domain?
A Fault Domain is a grouping of hardware and infrastructure within an Availability Domain. Each AD has three Fault Domains. By distributing resources across multiple Fault Domains, applications can tolerate hardware failure within a single AD.
5. Does OCI have a Free Tier?
Yes, OCI offers an “Always Free” tier that includes a selection of services like Compute VMs, Autonomous Databases, Object Storage, Load Balancers, and more, which do not expire. There’s also a 30-day free trial with credits for exploring a wider range of services.
6. How does OCI pricing work?
OCI uses a pay-as-you-go model for most services. Benefits include consistent global pricing, lower compute costs for many workloads, and significantly lower outbound data transfer costs compared to some competitors. They also offer Universal Credits, Bring Your Own License (BYOL) options, and committed use discounts. Managing cloud spend across platforms can be complex; services like those mentioned on State of Cloud can help with overall cloud cost management.
7. What is the OCI Shared Responsibility Model for security?
Similar to other clouds, OCI is responsible for the security *of* the cloud (infrastructure, physical security of data centers). The customer is responsible for security *in* the cloud (data, applications, identity and access management, OS configurations, network security within their VCN).
8. How do I sign up for an OCI account?
You can sign up on the Oracle Cloud website (cloud.oracle.com). You’ll need to provide contact information and payment details (even for the Free Tier, for identity verification and potential future usage).
9. What is the OCI Console?
The OCI Console is a web-based interface used to access and manage all your OCI services and resources. You can launch instances, manage storage, configure networks, monitor resources, and more.
10. What are OCI “Tenancy” and “Compartments”?
A Tenancy is a secure and isolated partition within OCI that Oracle creates for you when you sign up. It’s your root container for all your cloud resources. Compartments are sub-partitions within your tenancy to organize and control access to your resources, helping with governance and cost management.
II. OCI Compute Services
11. What are OCI Compute Instances?
OCI Compute instances are virtual machines (VMs) or bare metal servers that provide compute capacity in the cloud. You can launch, manage, and terminate instances as needed.
12. What are “Shapes” in OCI Compute?
A shape determines the number of OCPUs (Oracle Compute Units), amount of memory, local storage, and networking bandwidth allocated to an instance. OCI offers various shapes:
- Standard Shapes: For general-purpose workloads (VMs and Bare Metal).
- DenseIO Shapes: For workloads requiring high-performance local NVMe storage (VMs and Bare Metal).
- GPU Shapes: For AI/ML, graphics rendering, and HPC (VMs and Bare Metal).
- HPC Shapes: Optimized for high-performance computing with RDMA networking.
- Optimized Shapes (E-series, X-series): Often based on newer AMD or Intel processors.
13. What are Bare Metal instances in OCI?
Bare Metal instances provide dedicated physical server access for highest performance and strong isolation. They are ideal for mission-critical applications, performance-intensive workloads, or applications with licensing constraints requiring non-virtualized environments.
14. What is an OCI Image?
An image is a template of a virtual hard drive that determines the operating system and other software for an instance. OCI provides Oracle Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows Server images, and you can bring your own or create custom images.
15. Does OCI offer Autoscaling for Compute?
Yes, OCI Autoscaling enables you to automatically adjust the number of Compute instances in an instance pool based on performance metrics (like CPU utilization) or a schedule.
16. What is OCI Functions (Serverless)?
OCI Functions is a fully managed, multi-tenant, highly scalable, on-demand, Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform. It allows you to run code without provisioning or managing any infrastructure, typically triggered by events.
17. What is OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)?
OKE is a fully-managed, scalable, and highly available service that you can use to deploy your containerized applications to the cloud. It’s based on upstream Kubernetes and integrated with other OCI services.
18. What is OCI Container Registry (OCIR)?
OCIR is an Oracle-managed Docker container registry service that lets you store, share, and manage Docker images. It’s integrated with OKE and IAM.
19. What is Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS)?
OCVS allows you to run your VMware workloads natively on OCI. It provides a customer-managed, VMware Cloud Validated environment built on OCI bare metal instances, giving you full control and access to your VMware stack.
20. How are OCPUs defined?
An OCPU (Oracle Compute Unit) provides CPU capacity equivalent to one physical core of an Intel Xeon processor with hyperthreading enabled. For Arm-based Ampere Altra processors, an OCPU corresponds to one physical core.
III. OCI Storage Services
21. What is OCI Object Storage?
OCI Object Storage is an internet-scale, high-performance storage platform that offers reliable and cost-efficient data durability. It’s ideal for unstructured data like images, videos, backups, and logs. Data is stored in “buckets” as “objects.”
22. What are the tiers for OCI Object Storage?
OCI Object Storage offers:
- Standard (Hot): For frequently accessed data requiring fast, immediate access.
- Infrequent Access (Cool): For data accessed less frequently but still needs to be readily available.
- Archive (Cold): For long-term data retention accessed rarely, with the lowest storage cost and longer retrieval times.
- It also supports auto-tiering to move objects between tiers.
23. What is OCI Block Volume?
OCI Block Volume provides persistent, durable, and high-performance network block storage for your Compute instances. It’s like a virtual hard drive and can be used for boot volumes or data volumes.
24. What are the performance tiers for OCI Block Volume?
OCI Block Volume offers several performance tiers, including Basic, Balanced (default), Higher Performance, and Ultra High Performance, allowing you to choose the right IOPS/throughput for your workload.
25. What is OCI File Storage Service (FSS)?
FSS provides a durable, scalable, secure, enterprise-grade network file system. It can be connected to by any Compute instance in your VCN via the NFS protocol. It’s suitable for shared file access.
26. What is Local NVMe in OCI?
Some OCI Compute shapes (DenseIO, some Bare Metal) include locally attached NVMe SSDs, providing extremely high-performance, low-latency storage. This storage is ephemeral, meaning data is lost if the instance is terminated.
27. How do Block Volume, File Storage, and Object Storage differ?
- Block Volume: Network-attached block devices for single instances (like a SAN). Accessed as raw blocks.
- File Storage: Network-attached file system (like NAS). Accessed via NFS, can be shared by multiple instances.
- Object Storage: Stores data as objects in buckets. Accessed via APIs (HTTP/S). Highly scalable for unstructured data.
28. Can I encrypt data in OCI Storage services?
Yes, data in OCI Object Storage, Block Volume, and File Storage is encrypted at rest by default using AES-256. You can also use Oracle Key Management Cloud Service (KMS) for customer-managed keys.
29. How do I back up OCI Block Volumes?
You can create manual or automated policy-based backups of your block volumes. These backups are stored in OCI Object Storage and can be used to restore volumes or create new ones.
30. What is OCI Storage Gateway?
OCI Storage Gateway connects your on-premises applications with OCI, enabling you to store data in OCI Object Storage or File Storage through standard storage protocols (NFS, iSCSI).
IV. OCI Database Services
31. What is Oracle Autonomous Database?
Oracle Autonomous Database is a family of self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing cloud database services. It automates database tuning, security, backups, updates, and other routine management tasks traditionally performed by DBAs.
32. What are the types of Autonomous Database?
Key types include:
- Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP): Optimized for transactional workloads, mixed workloads, reporting, batch, and application development.
- Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW): Optimized for data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytics workloads.
- Autonomous JSON Database (AJD): For JSON-centric application development.
33. What is Oracle Exadata Cloud Service (ExaCS)?
ExaCS brings the full power of Oracle Exadata Database Machine to the cloud. It provides the highest levels of performance, availability, and security for Oracle Databases, ideal for mission-critical enterprise workloads.
34. What is OCI Database Service (Base Database Service)?
This service allows you to easily build, scale, and secure Oracle databases in the cloud. You can choose from Virtual Machine DB Systems or Bare Metal DB Systems, with options for single-node, 2-node RAC (Real Application Clusters), and more. You manage the OS and database patching to a greater extent than Autonomous Database. Additionally, the service facilitates seamless integration with various tools and applications, enhancing your database’s overall functionality. For those looking to optimize performance and reliability, using this platform in tandem with comprehensive resources can lead to improved results; the ultimate wordpress faq article can provide valuable insights into best practices for managing your cloud database efficiently. With robust support and documentation, users can leverage these capabilities to maximize their cloud environment.
35. Does OCI support MySQL databases?
Yes, OCI offers the MySQL Database Service, a fully managed service powered by MySQL Enterprise Edition. It also includes MySQL HeatWave, an in-memory query accelerator for analytics and mixed workloads.
36. Does OCI support NoSQL databases?
Yes, OCI offers the NoSQL Database Cloud Service, a fully managed, highly available database service for applications requiring low-latency data retrieval and high scalability with flexible data models (key-value, document, table).
37. Can I migrate my on-premises Oracle databases to OCI?
Yes, Oracle provides several tools and methods for migration, including RMAN, Data Pump, Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM), and Oracle Cloud Lift Services. The best method depends on database size, version, and downtime tolerance. Assistance with complex migrations can sometimes be sourced via expert platforms like State of Cloud.
38. What is Data Guard on OCI?
Oracle Data Guard can be used with OCI database services (Base Database, ExaCS) to provide high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for Oracle databases by maintaining standby databases.
39. What is Real Application Clusters (RAC) on OCI?
RAC can be deployed on VM DB Systems and Bare Metal DB Systems, as well as Exadata Cloud Service, to provide high availability and scalability for Oracle databases by clustering multiple instances accessing shared storage.
40. What licensing options are available for Oracle Databases on OCI?
OCI supports “License Included” (pay-as-you-go) and “Bring Your Own License” (BYOL) models, allowing you to leverage existing on-premises Oracle Database licenses.
V. OCI Networking & Connectivity
41. What is a Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) in OCI?
A VCN is a software-defined private network that you set up in OCI. It’s a customizable and isolated network within an OCI region, similar to a traditional data center network but with cloud benefits.
42. What are Subnets in a VCN?
Subnets are subdivisions of your VCN’s IP address range. You can create public subnets (for resources needing internet access) and private subnets (for isolated resources). Resources are launched into specific subnets.
43. What are OCI Security Lists?
Security Lists are virtual firewalls for your VCN that provide instance-level traffic filtering. They consist of ingress and egress rules that specify the types of traffic allowed in and out. They are applied at the subnet level, affecting all VNICs in that subnet.
44. What are Network Security Groups (NSGs) in OCI?
NSGs are another virtual firewall mechanism that acts on a set of VNICs of your choice (rather than all VNICs in a subnet). This allows for more granular security policy definition. You can use Security Lists and NSGs together.
45. What is an Internet Gateway in OCI?
An Internet Gateway provides a path for network traffic between your VCN and the internet. It’s required for resources in public subnets to communicate with the internet.
46. What is a NAT Gateway in OCI?
A NAT (Network Address Translation) Gateway enables instances in a private subnet to initiate outbound connections to the internet (e.g., for updates) without exposing them to inbound internet connections.
47. What is OCI Load Balancing service?
OCI Load Balancing provides automated traffic distribution from one entry point to multiple servers (e.g., Compute instances, containers) within your VCN. It supports public and private load balancers, flexible shapes, and SSL offloading.
48. What is OCI DNS?
OCI DNS provides highly available and scalable global Domain Name System (DNS) services. You can manage your public DNS zones and also use it for private DNS resolution within your VCNs.
49. What is OCI FastConnect?
FastConnect provides a dedicated, private connection between your data center or on-premises network and your VCN. It offers higher bandwidth, lower latency, and more consistent network performance compared to internet-based connections.
50. What is a Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG)?
A DRG is a virtual router that provides a path for private network traffic between your VCN and networks outside the VCN’s region, such as an on-premises network (via FastConnect or VPN) or VCNs in other regions (via VCN Peering).
VI. OCI Security, Identity & Compliance
51. What is OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM)?
OCI IAM controls who has access to your cloud resources, what type of access they have, and to which specific resources. It uses policies to enforce permissions for users, groups, and services.
52. What are Users, Groups, and Policies in OCI IAM?
- Users: Individual entities (people or applications) that need access to OCI resources.
- Groups: Collections of users. Permissions are typically granted to groups rather than individual users.
- Policies: Statements written in a human-readable format that specify who can access what resources and how (e.g., `Allow group Admins to manage all-resources in tenancy`).
53. What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in OCI?
MFA adds an extra layer of security for user logins by requiring a second form of verification beyond just a password. OCI IAM supports MFA for console users.
54. What is OCI Vault (Key Management & Secrets Management)?
OCI Vault is a managed service that lets you centrally manage and control encryption keys used to protect your data. It also provides secrets management for storing and controlling access to secrets like passwords, certificates, and API keys.
55. What is OCI Web Application Firewall (WAF)?
OCI WAF is a cloud-based, PCI-compliant, global web application firewall service that protects applications from malicious and unwanted internet traffic. It can be deployed at the edge or within a VCN.
56. What is OCI Cloud Guard?
Cloud Guard is OCI’s cloud security posture management service. It continuously monitors your OCI resources for security weaknesses based on detector recipes (rules) and can automatically remediate issues or notify administrators.
57. What are Security Zones in OCI?
Security Zones enforce rigorous security policies from the start for compartments. When you create resources in a Security Zone, OCI validates these operations against the zone’s policies (e.g., no public buckets, customer-managed keys only) and denies any violating actions.
58. What is OCI Threat Intelligence Service?
This service aggregates threat intelligence data from Oracle’s security research, third-party feeds, and industry partners to provide insights into malicious actors and threats relevant to your OCI environment.
59. How does OCI handle compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS)?
OCI maintains a broad range of global and industry-specific compliance certifications and attestations. Customers can leverage OCI’s compliant infrastructure to build their own compliant applications. Compliance documentation is available through the OCI Console.
60. What is OCI Data Safe?
Oracle Data Safe is a fully-integrated cloud service focused on the security of your data. It provides features like security assessment, user assessment, data discovery, data masking, and activity auditing for Oracle Databases in OCI and on-premises.
VII. OCI Management, Governance & Observability
61. What is OCI Monitoring service?
OCI Monitoring provides metrics, alarms, and notifications to help you understand the health, capacity, and performance of your cloud resources. It integrates with many OCI services.
62. What is OCI Logging service?
OCI Logging is a highly scalable and fully managed service for ingesting, managing, and analyzing logs from your OCI resources, applications, and custom sources. It can be integrated with OCI Monitoring for alarms and OCI Functions for event-driven actions.
63. What is OCI Notifications service?
OCI Notifications broadcasts messages to distributed components, such as email and PagerDuty. It integrates with OCI Monitoring, Logging, and other services to alert you to events or issues.
64. What is OCI Resource Manager?
OCI Resource Manager is an IaC (Infrastructure as Code) service that allows you to automate the process of provisioning OCI resources using Terraform. You can define your infrastructure in configuration files and manage it through its lifecycle.
65. What are OCI Budgets?
OCI Budgets allow you to track your OCI spending against a set budget amount. You can set alerts to notify you when your actual or forecasted spending reaches certain thresholds, helping with cost governance. Effective budget management across cloud providers is an area where platforms like State of Cloud can offer comprehensive tools and expertise.
66. Does OCI have a Command Line Interface (CLI)?
Yes, the OCI CLI is a small-footprint tool that you can use on its own or with other tools to interact with OCI services. It provides the same core capabilities as the OCI Console, plus additional commands.
67. Does OCI offer Software Development Kits (SDKs)?
Yes, OCI provides SDKs for various programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, .NET, Ruby, TypeScript/JavaScript) to make it easier to develop applications that interact with OCI services.
68. What is OCI Tagging?
Tagging allows you to add metadata (key-value pairs) to your OCI resources. Tags can be used for organization, cost tracking, automation, and access control.
69. What is OCI Audit service?
OCI Audit automatically records calls to all supported OCI public application programming interface (API) endpoints as log events. This provides visibility into activities within your tenancy for security analysis and compliance.
70. What are Service Limits in OCI?
Service Limits are quotas on the resources you can use in your OCI tenancy (e.g., number of Compute instances, amount of Block Volume storage). You can request increases for many of these limits via the OCI Console or support.
VIII. Specialized Workloads & Solutions on OCI
71. How does OCI support High-Performance Computing (HPC)?
OCI provides bare metal instances, low-latency RDMA cluster networking, high-performance storage options (Local NVMe, Block Volume, File Storage), and specialized HPC instance shapes, making it suitable for demanding HPC workloads.
72. Can I run Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) on OCI?
Yes, OCI is an ideal platform for running Oracle E-Business Suite. Oracle offers tools and best practices for migrating and running EBS on OCI, leveraging services like Exadata Cloud Service or Compute for application tiers.
73. Can I run PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, or Siebel on OCI?
Yes, similar to EBS, OCI is optimized for running these and other Oracle enterprise applications. Oracle provides specific guidance, reference architectures, and automation tools for these applications.
74. What is Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC)?
OAC is a comprehensive cloud analytics service that provides a full range of capabilities from self-service data discovery and visualization to enterprise reporting, advanced analytics, and AI-powered insights.
75. What AI and Machine Learning services does OCI offer?
OCI offers a suite of AI services (e.g., OCI Vision, Speech, Language, Anomaly Detection, Digital Assistant) and the OCI Data Science service, a platform for data scientists to build, train, and manage machine learning models.
76. Does OCI support blockchain solutions?
Yes, Oracle Blockchain Platform Cloud Service enables organizations to build and run blockchain applications for secure and trusted transactions and data sharing.
77. What is OCI Digital Assistant?
OCI Digital Assistant is an AI-powered platform that allows you to build conversational interfaces (chatbots) that can connect to various backend systems and applications.
78. What is OCI Data Integration service?
OCI Data Integration is a cloud-native, fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service that helps you ingest, prepare, and transform data from various sources for analytics, data warehousing, and more.
79. How does OCI support IoT (Internet of Things) workloads?
OCI IoT Cloud Service provides capabilities to connect, manage, analyze, and integrate data from IoT devices, enabling businesses to build and deploy IoT applications.
80. What is Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) used for?
OCVS is typically used for migrating existing VMware workloads to the cloud with minimal re-architecture, establishing disaster recovery sites, or expanding data center capacity. It gives customers dedicated OCI bare metal infrastructure with full administrative control over their VMware environment.
IX. Migration, Hybrid & Multi-Cloud with OCI
81. How can I migrate workloads to OCI?
OCI offers various tools and services, including Oracle Cloud Lift Services (providing technical expertise and credits), Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) for databases, and compatibility with third-party migration tools. The approach depends on the workload. Professional services, sometimes available through platforms like State of Cloud, can assist with complex migrations.
82. What is Oracle Cloud@Customer?
Oracle Cloud@Customer brings OCI public cloud services and Oracle Exadata Cloud Service directly into a customer’s data center. It’s managed by Oracle but resides on-premises, addressing data residency, low-latency, and regulatory requirements while providing a cloud operating model.
83. How does OCI facilitate hybrid cloud strategies?
Through services like Cloud@Customer, FastConnect for private connectivity, Storage Gateway, and tools that enable consistent management and deployment across on-premises and OCI environments.
84. Can OCI be part of a multi-cloud strategy?
Yes. Many enterprises use OCI alongside other cloud providers. OCI’s strong database capabilities, price-performance for specific workloads, and FastConnect interconnections (e.g., with Azure) make it a viable component of a multi-cloud architecture. Managing costs and resources across multiple clouds is a key challenge where consultancies found on State of Cloud can prove invaluable.
85. What is Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure?
Roving Edge Infrastructure extends OCI capabilities to edge locations, even those with limited or no network connectivity. It provides ruggedized, portable devices (Roving Edge Devices – REDs) that can run OCI workloads closer to where data is generated or actions are performed.
86. Does OCI integrate with Microsoft Azure?
Yes, Oracle and Microsoft have a cloud interoperability partnership that allows customers to run workloads across OCI and Azure. This includes a low-latency, private interconnect between OCI and Azure data centers in certain regions, unified identity, and collaborative support.
87. What is Oracle Cloud Lift Services?
Oracle Cloud Lift Services provide customers with technical tools, cloud engineering resources, and financial credits from Oracle to help accelerate their migration to OCI. This is often free for qualifying customers.
88. How are Oracle Applications (like Fusion Apps) delivered on OCI?
Oracle’s own SaaS applications (like Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, HCM, SCM) are built and run on OCI, demonstrating the platform’s capability to host large-scale, mission-critical enterprise software.
89. What are “Universal Credits” in OCI?
Universal Credits is Oracle’s flexible buying and consumption model for cloud services. Customers purchase credits and can then use them for any eligible IaaS or PaaS service across any OCI region, providing flexibility and cost predictability.
90. Can I use Terraform with OCI?
Yes, OCI has a native Terraform provider and the OCI Resource Manager service for managing infrastructure as code using Terraform.
X. OCI Support, Learning & Community
91. What OCI support plans are available?
OCI offers included support with all paid services. Customers can also purchase Oracle Support Rewards or upgrade to higher tiers of paid support for faster response times, dedicated technical account managers, and proactive guidance.
92. How can I learn more about OCI?
Oracle provides extensive documentation, Oracle University for training and certifications, free online learning through Oracle LiveLabs and the Oracle Help Center Learn. There are also workshops, webinars, and community forums.
93. What OCI Certifications are available?
Oracle offers a range of OCI certifications, from Foundations Associate to various Associate, Professional, and Specialist levels covering areas like Architect, Developer, Operations, Database, Security, HPC, and Oracle Applications.
94. What is an OCI Solutions Architect?
An OCI Solutions Architect designs, builds, and deploys solutions on OCI that meet customer requirements for performance, security, availability, and cost-effectiveness. The OCI Architect Associate and Professional certifications are popular.
95. Is there an OCI Partner Network?
Yes, the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle’s partner program that provides members with training, resources, and support to build, sell, and implement solutions on OCI.
96. Are there OCI User Groups or communities?
Yes, there are Oracle User Groups (e.g., OATUG, IOUG which are now part of a larger Quest Oracle Community), local meetups, and online forums where OCI users can share knowledge, ask questions, and network.
97. What is Oracle CloudWorld?
Oracle CloudWorld (formerly Oracle OpenWorld) is Oracle’s flagship annual conference for customers and partners, featuring keynotes, product announcements, technical sessions, hands-on labs, and networking opportunities focused on Oracle Cloud and applications.
98. How can I find OCI case studies or customer success stories?
Oracle regularly publishes customer success stories and case studies on its website, showcasing how various organizations are using OCI to achieve their business objectives.
99. What is the best way to stay updated on new OCI features?
Follow the official Oracle Cloud Blog, OCI documentation release notes, Oracle’s social media channels, and attend webinars or events. Subscribing to OCI newsletters is also helpful.
100. Where can I get help with complex OCI projects or strategy?
Beyond Oracle’s own support and professional services, a network of OPN consulting partners can provide specialized expertise. For broader cloud strategy involving OCI and other platforms, or for independent cost optimization advice, exploring resources like State of Cloud can connect you with relevant experts and tools.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers a compelling suite of services, especially for enterprises with significant Oracle investments or high-performance computing needs. We trust this FAQ has clarified many aspects of OCI. For advanced management, multi-cloud cost optimization, or specialized Oracle Cloud expertise, consider leveraging the insights and services accessible through platforms such as State of Cloud.
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