Oracle launches its first Arm-based cloud compute offering on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform

Oracle Corp., in a recent press meet, has announced that it is giving its customers more flexibility as it is launching its first Arm-based cloud compute offering on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) platform. The new offering is named OCI Ampere A1 Compute and is designed to power both general-purpose and cloud-native workloads, which require high performance at more manageable costs. This new arm-based cloud compute is based on the Ampere Altra architecture built by Ampere Computing LLC.

Besides, Oracle is making a huge investment in the Arm ecosystem. The sectors offer more resources and tools, including a new development environment for developers intended to support Arm-based application development. Oracle has stated that the new Arm compute instances come in a range of options and sizes that suits any workload, with the industry's first Arm-based flexible virtual machine shapes that can be right-sized for different jobs.

Arm Ltd.'s central processing units are better known for their extremely efficient, flexible, and scalable architecture. The company devices are most prominently used in smaller devices such as smartphones. In recent years the products are also being used to power everything from personal computers and "internet of things" devices to computer servers and even supercomputers.