Oracle Cloud

Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing  service offered by  Oracle

Corporation  providing servers, storage, network, applications and
Oracle Cloud
services through a global network of Oracle Corporation
managed  data centers. The company allows these services to be
provisioned on demand over the Internet.

Oracle Cloud provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform

Developer(s) Oracle
as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Data as a
Corporation
Service (DaaS). These services are used to build, deploy, integrate,
and extend applications in the cloud. This platform supports Initial release October 20,
numerous open standards (SQL, HTML5, REST, etc.), open- 2016
source applications (Kubernetes, Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, MySQL,
Operating system Linux,
Terraform, etc.), and a variety of programming languages,
Microsoft
databases, tools, and frameworks including Oracle-specific, Open
Windows, iOS,
Source, and third-party software and systems.[1]
Android
Platform Cross-platform
Services
Type Web service,
cloud
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform computing,
as a Service (PaaS) multicloud
License Closed source
Oracle's cloud infrastructure was made generally available (GA) for platform,
on October 20, 2016 under the name "Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Open source
Services."[2] Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services was rebranded as for client SDKs
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in 2018 and dubbed Oracle's
Website www.oracle
"Generation 2 Cloud" at Oracle OpenWorld 2018.[3] Oracle Cloud
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Infrastructure offerings include the following services:[1][4]
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Compute: The company provides Virtual Machine e.com/cloud/)
Instances to provide different shapes (VM sizes)
catering to different types of workloads and performance characteristics. They also provide
on-demand Bare metal servers and Bare metal GPU servers, without a hypervisor. In 2016,
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched with bare metal instances with Intel processors. These
first bare metal instances offered were powered by Intel servers.[5] In 2018, Oracle Cloud
added bare metal instances powered by AMD processors,[6] followed by Ampere Cloud-
native processors in 2021.[7] In 2021, Oracle also released its first VM-based compute
instances based on Arm processors.[7]
Storage: The platform provides block volumes, file storage, object storage, and archive
storage for database, analytics, content, and other applications across common protocols
and APIs.
Networking: This cloud platform provides network with fully configurable IP addresses,
subnets, routing, and firewalls to support new or existing private networks with end-to-end
security.
Governance: For auditing, identity and access management, the platform has data integrity
checks, traceability, and access management features.
Database Management / Data Management: Oracle offers a data management platform for
database workloads as well as hyper-scale big data and streaming workloads including
OLTP, data warehousing, Spark, machine learning, text search, image analytics, data
catalog, and deep learning. The platform allows Oracle, MySQL, and NoSQL databases to
be deployed on demand as managed cloud services. Oracle Databases uniquely offer the
Oracle Autonomous Database (optimized for data warehouse, transaction processing, or
JSON), the Exadata shape, as well as Real Application Clusters (RAC).
Load Balancing: The cloud platform offers load balancing capability to automatically route
traffic across fault domains and availability domains for high availability and fault-tolerance
for hosted applications.
Edge Services: These services can monitor the path between users and resources and
adapt to changes and outages using secure DNS infrastructure.
FastConnect: The cloud platform provides private connectivity across on-premises and
cloud networks through providers like Equinix, AT&T, and Colt.
Application Development: For application development, the company’s cloud offers an
open, standards-based application development platform to build, deploy, and manage API-
first, mobile-first cloud applications. This platform supports container-native, cloud-native,
and low code development. This platform also provides a DevOps platform for CI/CD,
diagnostics for Java applications, and integration with SaaS and on-prem applications.
Services include Java, mobile, digital assistants (evolution from chatbots), messaging,
application container cloud, developer cloud, visual builder, API catalog, AI platform,
DataScience.com (Oracle acquired) and blockchain.
Integration: This is a platform offering with adapters to integrate on-premise and cloud
applications. Capabilities include data integration and replication, API management,
integration analytics, along with data migration and integration. They offer services such as
data integration platform cloud, data integrator cloud service, GoldenGate cloud service,
integration cloud, process cloud service, API platform cloud service, apiary cloud service,
and SOA cloud service.
Business Analytics: The company provides this business analytics platform which can
analyze and generate insights from data across various applications, data warehouses, and
data lakes. The services offered include analytics cloud, business intelligence, big data
discovery, big data preparation, data visualization, and essbase.
Security: The Oracle Cloud Platform provides identity and security applications for providing
secure access and monitoring of hybrid cloud environment and addressing IT governance
and compliance requirements. This platform delivers an identity SOC (Security Operations
Center) through a combined offering of SIEM, UEBA, CASB,l, and IDaaS. The services
offered include Identity Cloud Service and CASB Cloud Service.
Management: The platform provides an integrated monitoring, management, and analytics
platform. This platform also uses machine learning and big data on the operational data set.
The platform is used to improve IT stability, prevent application outages, improve DevOps,
and harden security. Services offered include Application Performance Monitoring,
Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Analytics, Orchestration, IT Analytics, Configuration and
Compliance, Security Monitoring, and Analytics.
Content and Experience: This is a platform for content, website, and workflow management.
This service is used to provide content collaboration and web presence. This tool comes
integrated with Oracle on-premise and SaaS services. The services offered are Content and
Experience Cloud, WebCenter Portal Cloud, and DIVA Cloud.
In 2016, Oracle acquired Dyn, an internet infrastructure company.[8] On May 16, 2018 Oracle announced
that it had acquired DataScience.com, a privately held cloud workspace platform for data science projects
and workloads.[9] In April 2020, Oracle became the cloud infrastructure provider for Zoom, an online and
video meeting platform.[10] The same month, Nissan announced its migration to Oracle Cloud for its high-
performance computing (HPC) workloads used for simulating the structural impacts of a car design.[11]
Xerox announced a partnership with Oracle Cloud in 2021, where Xerox will use Oracle’s cloud-
computing capabilities within its business incubator.[12]

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Oracle provides SaaS applications also known as Oracle Cloud Applications. These applications are
offered across a variety of products, industrial sectors with various deployment options to adhere to
compliance standards. The below list mentions Oracle Cloud Applications provided by Oracle
Corporation.[13]

Customer Experience (CX)

Human Capital Management (HCM)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
Internet of Things Applications (IoT)
SaaS Analytics
Data
Industry Solutions (Communications, Financial Services, Consumer Goods, High Tech and
Manufacturing, Higher Education, Hospitality, Utilities)
Deployment (adhering to standards for sectors such as Financial Services, Retail Services,
Public Sector, Defense)
Block-Chain Cloud Service (in partnership with SAP, IBM and Microsoft)[14]
Blockchain Applications

On July 28, 2016 Oracle bought NetSuite, the very first cloud company, for $9.3 billion.[15]

Data as a Service (DaaS)

This platform is known as the Oracle Data Cloud. This platform aggregates and analyzes consumer data
powered by Oracle ID Graph across channels and devices to create cross-channel consumer
understanding.[16]

Deployment models
Oracle Cloud is available in 37 regions as of March 2022, including North America, South America, UK,
European Union, Middle East, Africa, India, Australia, Korea, and Japan.[17] Oracle Cloud is available as a
public cloud (Oracle-managed regions); to select government agencies as an Oracle-managed government
cloud in the United States (with FedRAMP High and DISA SRG IL5 compliance) and United Kingdom;
and as a "private cloud" or "hybrid cloud" as an Oracle-managed database-only service or full-service
dedicated region[18][19] - what Oracle calls "Cloud at Customer."

Architecture
Oracle's public and government cloud is offered through a global network of Oracle-managed data centers,
connected by an Oracle-managed backbone network. Oracle's Exadata Cloud at Customer leverages this
network for control plane services.[20] Oracle deploys their cloud in Regions, typically with two
geographically distributed regions in each country for disaster resiliency with data sovereignty. Inside each
Region are at least one fault-independent Availability Domain and three fault-tolerant Fault Domains per
Availability Domain. Each Availability Domains contains an independent data center with power, thermal,
and network isolation.[21]

Oracle Cloud hosts customer-accessible cloud infrastructure and platform services, as well as end-user
accessible software as a service from these cloud regions.

See also
Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX)
Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud
Oracle HCM Cloud

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External links
Official website (https://cloud.oracle.com/)
End-to-End Automation Testing for Oracle Cloud (https://www.opkey.com/oracle/)

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