Introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Platform Categories

In any Cloud Region, Cloud@Customer, Hybrid Cloud, and Multicloud, there are 7 major categories:

1. Core Infrastructure
   1. Compute: Bare Metal, VM, CPUs, GPUs, HPC.
   2. Containers: Containers, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Registry.
   3. OS, VMware: Autonomous Linux, OS Management Service, Marketplace.
   4. Storage: NVMe, Block File, Object, Archive, Data Transfer.
   5. Networking: VCN, LB, Service Gateway, FC, VPN, Cluster Networking.
       
2. Database Services
   1. Oracle Database: ATP, ADW, DBCS VM/BM, JSON, Dedicated Exadata, Exadata C@C.
   2. Distributed & OSS Databases: NoSQL, MySQL.
       
3. Data & AI
   1. Big Data: Big Data, Data Flow, Data Integration, Data Catalogues, Golden Gate.
   2. AI Service: Data Science, Digital Assistance.
   3. Messaging: Streaming, Queueing, Service Connectors.
       
4. Analytics
   1. Business Analytics: Analytics Cloud, Fusion Analytics.
       
5. Governance & Administration
   1. Cloud Ops: IAM, Compartments, Tagging, Console, Cost Advisor.
   2. Security: Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vault, KMS, Data Safe, DDoS, WAF.
   3. Observability: Monitoring, Logging, Logging Analytics, Notifications, Events, Operations Insights, APM, Management Cloud.
       
6. Developer Services
   1. Low Code: APEX
   2. AppDev: Visual Builder Studio, Graal VM, Hedidon, SQL Developer, Shell, APIs / CLI / SDKs / Docs.
   3. Infrastructure as Code: Resource Manager, Terraform, Ansible.
       
7. Application Services
   1. Serveries: Events, Functions, API Gateways.
   2. App Integration: Integration Cloud, Workflow, Notifications, Email Delivery.
   3. Business & Industry SaaS: ERP, HCM, SCM, Sales, Marketing, Services, Vertical Industry.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architecture

It is composed of these types:

• Regions
• Availability Domains (AD) = data centers
• Fault Domains (FD)

Distributed Cloud

It offers exceptional flexibility and choice.

• Public cloud: 41+ global locations.
   
• Hybrid cloud:
  • Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer
  • Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure
  • OCI Observability and Management
  • Oracle Database
     
• Dedicated cloud: Customized cloud including 100+ OCI services running in customer data centers, including OCI Dedicated Region and Oracle Alloy.
   
• Multicloud: work with other providers such as
  • Oracle Database Service for Azure
  • Oracle Interconnect for Azure
  • Oracle MySQL Heatwave on AWS