Oracle, as promised last year, presented in its cloud solutions based on Arm-processors Ampere Altra Q80 – it’s time to fight off investments. The company also talked about how it collaborated with Ampere to develop the Arm server ecosystem.
Two types of Ampere A1 instances were presented: bare-metal and virtual machines of the VM.Standard.A1.Flex family. In the first case, you can get up to 160 cores, 1 TB of memory and two 50-Gbps connections. In the second – from 1 to 80 OCPU and memory at the rate of 1 to 64 GB per OCPU, but no more than 512 GB per VM. The network connection speed is 1 Gbps for each OCPU, but not more than 40 Gbps. Connections from 2 to 24 vNICs are available.
In the case of Ampere instances, one OCPU corresponds to one physical core with the same thread. The cost is $ 0,01 / hour for one OCPU, that is, at least two and a half times cheaper than x86-64. The latter, however, have one OCPU equal to one physical core with two threads. The cost of memory is the same there, and there – $ 0,0015 / hour for 1 GB. There are ready-made images with OS Oracle Linux Cloud Developer 8, Oracle Linux 7.x / 8.x, Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04. In addition, Ampere A1 can be used within the Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE). Over time, Ampere A1 instances will become available in all cloud regions and as part of Dedicated Region Cloud @ Customer.
The company positions the new items as general-purpose servers, for in-memory DBMS and caching, for inference, for some HPC tasks, as well as a platform for developing and debugging mobile applications. Specifically, Canonical announced support for Ampere A1 for Ampere A1 Ubuntu, but also for Anbox Cloud. This solution allows you to run Android containers and emulate thousands of different Android devices. Overall, Oracle says that the new Arm instances are more profitable in many tasks than x86-64-based solutions, and offer better performance scaling with an increase in the number of cores, as well as increased security.
The company has optimized a number of its key products for work on Arm – Oracle Linux, Java, GraalVM, MySQL – and added support for popular CI / CD solutions and development tools. Ampere, in turn, has been porting and adapting popular platforms, applications, frameworks and development tools. And to stimulate the migration of software to Arm architecture, Oracle has created a separate portal for developers and prepared several proposals for companies and individuals.
First, 4 OCU Ampere A1 and 24 GB of RAM were added to the Always Free package, from which you can build from one to four instances. Second, under Oracle Cloud Free Tier, you can get $ 300 per account and spend it within 30 days. Finally, Oracle launched the Arm Accelerator Program, which targets open source projects, universities, large developers, and so on. Approved members will receive free cloud access for a year.
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