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Differences between OCI-C and OCI?

Oracle has the same services on their new platform Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Classic (OCI-C).

What are the differences between these two platforms? Do the hypervisors differ?

Solution

  • Both OCI and OCI-C are platforms for IaaS.

    OCI-C

    • formerly called Oracle Public Cloud (OPC)
    • Based on Xen hypervisor
    • Offers VMs only
    • Elastic of Dedicated Compute

    OCI

    • Essentially a rebranding of Oracle's Bare Metal Cloud Service (BMCS)
    • Hypervisor based on KVM
    • Offers VMs and Bare Metal compute
    • Compute, Availability Domain, Virtual Cloud Network, and Edge deployment

    There's also Cloud at Customer (C@C or just CC) where you "subscribe" to the cloud services but the servers are kept on the customer's premises.

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