Oracle Cloud more and more powerful thanks to the adoption of the new processors in the range AMD EPYC second generation which have been added to the options available on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E3 platform.
Starting today, April 29, Oracle Cloud customers will be able to "rent" Oracle Cloud E3 instances in the regions US East (Ashburn), US West (Phoenix), Germany Central (Frankfurt) and Japan East (Tokyo). In the coming months, Oracle plans to make the platform available in other regions as well.
The new E3 instances of Oracle Cloud based on AMD CPU
The new Oracle Cloud servers are based on AMD EPYC 7742 processors with a frequency of 2.25 Ghz, which in boost mode can go up to 3.4 GHz. Each instance can support up to 128 CPUs and 256 threads, with a maximum of 2 TB of RAM. As for connectivity, the available bandwidth is 100 Gbps. At the moment, Oracle is the only public cloud service that can offer such a large number of cores per instance.
Pricing is based on usage time: you pay per second, as expected by the new model that Oracle introduced in April. In the case of VMs, the minimum usage time is one minute, while for the bare metal – use of the entire server – there is a minimum of one hour. Once the minimum time of use has expired, you will pay for each second of use.
"Two years ago we started a very successful collaboration with AMD which allowed us to guarantee top-level performance to the many enterprise customers who were carrying out workloads on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure" – he has declared Vinay Kumar, vice president, product management of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – "Today we launched the new platform Oracle Cloud E3 based on AMD EPYC processors. Customers will have access to virtual machines that support more cores, the highest of any bare metal instances available on the public cloud".
It is worth noting a curious fact. Last year, at the Oracle Advantage Forum, we had the opportunity to speak with Oracle and, there. the company had said that a collaboration with AMD was not on the horizon due to the very strong partnership with Intel. The characteristics of the AMD CPUs, between performance and efficiency, however, seem to have convinced the giant of Redwood Shores to also offer an alternative based on AMD.
More information on Oracle Cloud E3 is available here.