Oracle announces cheapest Arm-based computing for modern apps

Cloud major Oracle has announced its first Arm-based compute offering called OCI Ampere A1 Compute that will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) at only one cent per core hour, the industrys lowest cost per core.

The offering means that customers can run cloud-native and general-purpose workloads on Arm instances with significant price-performance benefits.

“The increasingly distributed nature of work means modern applications don’t just live in the Cloud, it lives at the edge. In Asia Pacific, this is being driven by smart industry-edge applications, real-time analytics and IoT, as businesses seek to improve operations and deliver new experiences to their customers,” said Chris Chelliah, SVP, Technology and Customer Strategy, Asia Pacific & Japan.