Compute

On January 1, 2025, Oracle Linux 7 moved from Premier Support to Oracle Linux Extended Support. Oracle Cloud customers ...

Oracle Linux Extended Support for Oracle Linux 6 ended on December 31, 2024. Oracle Linux has moved to Sustaining ...

You can now take advantage of your Microsoft Flexible Virtualization Benefit to bring your own license for Windows Server. ...

Beginning January 2025, Oracle Linux 7 moves from Oracle Linux Premier Support to Oracle Linux Extended Support. For more ...

Oracle Linux Extended Support for Oracle Linux 6 ends December 2024. For more information, see Lifetime Support Policy. ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cluster Placement Groups lets you create resources in close proximity to one another to support use cases ...

Today we are thrilled to announce the general availability of Boot Volume Replacement for Virtual Machine Instance! This feature ...

Oracle Ksplice is now available in US Federal Cloud with DISA Impact Level 5 Authorization.

For more information about ...

You can now disable simultaneous multithreading (SMT) on your virtual machine (VM) instances. See Disabling Simultaneous Multithreading.

Today we are thrilled to announce the general availability of Enhanced Health Monitor Experience for Dedicated Virtual Machine Host! ...

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of two new features for Dedicated Virtual Machine Host instances.

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High Performance Computing (HPC) performs complex calculations and processes data faster than traditional Compute. HPC uses bare metal servers, ultralow ...

You may now assign IPv6 addresses to VNICs attached to your Compute instance during launch. Assigned IP addresses will be ...

You can now attach up to 32 instances to a shared volume if the volume is not configured for the ...

An E5-based AMD shape with customizable memory and OCPU count is now available for virtual machines. For bare metal instances, an ...

Oracle Ksplice is now available in US Government Cloud with FedRAMP Authorization.

For more information about the US Government ...

The soft stop power action (ACPI shutdown and power on) is now available for instance pools and schedule-based autoscaling. Softstop ...

Extended memory VMs are VM instances that provide more memory and cores than available with standard shapes. For more information, ...

A new type of cluster network, called a compute cluster, lets you independently manage instances in a cluster network. A ...

Two new Intel X9-based GPU shapes are now available for virtual machine instances.

• VM.GPU.GU1.1 (also named VM.GPU.A10.1)
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Oracle Autonomous Linux 8 is now available as a platform image. For more information, see Platform Images.

Confidential computing encrypts and isolates in-use data and the applications processing that data. For more information, refer to Confidential Computing ...

You can monitor whether a VM instance is responsive by using a new instance accessibility status metric. Compute sends an ...

Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the US Midwest (Chicago) region. For more information, see Managing ...

Live migration is now supported for compute instances that use Windows images. For more information, see Infrastructure Maintenance.

Two new GPU shapes are now available for bare metal instances.

• BM.GPU.GU1.4 (also named BM.GPU.A10.4): X9-based GPU compute. ...

Windows Server 2022 is now available as a platform image. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images.

Preemptible instances now emit an instancepreemptionaction event two minutes before the instance termination begins. For more information about how to ...

Oracle Linux 9 is now available as a platform image. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images.

You can now enable Windows Defender Credential Guard when provisioning shielded instances. See How Shielded Instances Work and To create ...

When a bare metal instance is scheduled for reboot migration due to planned infrastructure maintenance, you can now proactively reboot ...

You can now extend the maintenance due date for Compute VM instances that are scheduled for reboot migration due to ...

When you create a bare metal compute instance, you can now configure advanced BIOS settings that let you optimize performance ...

During infrastructure maintenance events, reboot migration is now available for supported bare metal shapes. For more information, see Infrastructure Maintenance ...

You can now use quick start templates and focused options to create contextual notifications for compute instances. See Setting Up ...

CentOS 8 is now available as a platform image. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images.

Compute dense I/O virtual machine (VM) shapes now support reboot migration during infrastructure maintenance events. For more information, see Infrastructure ...

A new AMD E4-based dense I/O shape with customizable memory and OCPU count is now available for virtual machines. You ...

You can now use a diagnostic reboot to rebuild an unreachable compute virtual machine (VM) instance when other troubleshooting steps ...

A new troubleshooting and diagnostic tool in the Console helps you to identify and resolve issues with compute instances. The ...

You can now create dedicated virtual machine hosts for instances that use the VM.Standard.E4.Flex, VM.Standard3.Flex, and VM.Optimized3.Flex shapes. For more ...

Burstable compute instances are now supported for the following shapes:

• VM.Standard3.Flex
• VM.Standard.E4.Flex

For more information, see Burstable Instances.

Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the following regions:

• Brazil Southeast (Vinhedo)
• India ...

Preemptible instances are now supported on all compute virtual machine (VM) shapes except for the VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro shape. For more information, ...

You can now update the instance configuration that a cluster network's underlying instance pool uses when creating instances. For more ...

A new Standard3-based Intel shape with customizable memory and OCPU count is now available for virtual machines.

For bare ...

Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the following commercial regions:

• Brazil East (Sao Paulo) ...

You can now use the Console to create an instance configuration by specifying a list of configuration settings. You can ...

Shielded instances harden the firmware security on bare metal hosts and virtual machines (VMs) to defend against malicious boot level ...

You can now connect to the serial console quickly and easily using the Cloud Shell integration.

You can now deploy Management Agents on compute instances using the Oracle Cloud Agent plugin. For more information, see Deploy ...

You can now manage console history captures in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console.

Oracle Linux Cloud Developer is now available as a platform image for AMD and Intel compute instances.

Oracle Linux ...

The Block Volume service now supports in-transit encryption for the following bare metal shapes:

• BM.Standard.E3.128
• BM.Standard.E4.128
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The Arm-based Ampere A1 Compute shape for bare metal instances is now available.

For more information, see Arm-Based Compute ...

Oracle Linux Cloud Developer is now available as a platform image for Arm-based compute instances.

Oracle Linux Cloud Developer ...

A new Arm-based Ampere A1 Compute shape with customizable memory and OCPU count is now available for virtual machines.

When you create a compute instance, you can now opt out of creating a DNS record for the instance's VNIC. ...

You can now update the number of instances in a cluster network by resizing the underlying instance pool. This lets ...

A new Optimized3-based Intel shape with customizable memory and OCPU count is now available for virtual machines.

For bare ...

You can now choose to have your instances live migrated to healthy physical VM hosts without any notification or disruption. ...

Preemptible instances behave the same as regular compute instances, but the capacity is reclaimed when it's needed elsewhere, and the ...

Burstable instances let you optimize your costs for workloads that typically have low CPU utilization with occasional spikes in usage, ...

You can now create dedicated virtual machine hosts for instances that use the VM.Standard.E2, VM.Standard.E3, and VM.DenseIO2 series. For more ...

You can now use schedule-based autoscaling to stop and start instances on a schedule. For more information, see Schedule-Based Autoscaling ...

Capacity reservations allow you to reserve compute capacity in advance so that the capacity is available for your workloads when ...

When the underlying infrastructure of a Standard or GPU VM instance fails, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure automatically attempts to recover the ...

A new E4-based AMD shape with customizable memory and OCPU count is now available for virtual machines.

For bare ...

You can now add (attach) existing instance to an instance pool. This lets you create instances independently but manage them ...

The oci_computeagent metric namespace for compute instances includes new metrics for average system load and memory allocation stalls. For more ...

You can now write IAM policy that restricts the ability for users to create instances from custom images on an ...

You can now export custom images to the following formats:

• QEMU Copy On Write (.qcow2)
• Virtual Disk ...

Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the US West (San Jose) region. For more information, see ...

Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the South Korea Central (Seoul) region. For more information, see ...

You can now individually enable and disable the plugins that Oracle Cloud Agent runs on compute instances. These plugins are: ...

The VM.Standard.E3.Flex shape and the BM.Standard.E3.128 shape are now available in all commercial regions. For more information, see Flexible Shapes ...

The run command feature for compute instances is now supported on Windows Server images. For more information, see Running Commands ...

CentOS 8 is now available as a platform image. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images.

The VM.Standard.E3.Flex shape and the BM.Standard.E3.128 shape are now available in the United Kingdom Government Cloud regions. For more information, ...

During an infrastructure maintenance event that impacts a physical compute host, where applicable, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure live migrates VM instances ...

The VM.Standard.E3.Flex shape and the BM.Standard.E3.128 shape are now available in the US Government Cloud regions. For more information, see ...

The run command feature for compute instances is now available in all regions in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure commercial realm. ...

Infrastructure health monitoring now emits the following fault classes for compute bare metal instances:

• PCI-NIC: A fault ...

You can remotely configure, manage, and troubleshoot compute instances by running scripts within the instance using the run command feature. ...

You can now create Resource Manager stacks using configurations you specify in the following resource launch pages available in the ...

An updated version of the instance metadata service (IMDS) is now available for compute instances. IMDSv2 offers increased security compared ...

You can monitor the lifecycle state of instances in your compute instance pools using metrics in the oci_instancepools metric namespace. ...

An AMD-based GPU shape with locally-attached, NVMe-based SSD storage is now available for compute bare metal instances. For more information, ...

Flexible shapes now allow you to customize both the number of OCPUs and the amount of memory when launching or ...

You can debug an unresponsive or unreachable compute virtual machine instance by sending a diagnostic interrupt. On a configured instance, ...

Autoscaling is now available for compute bare metal instance pools. For more information, see Autoscaling.

You can now configure compute virtual machine (VM) instances to remain stopped after a maintenance event affects the underlying infrastructure, ...

The VM.Standard.E3.Flex shape and the BM.Standard.E3.128 shape are now available in the India South (Hyderabad) region. For more information, see ...

Oracle Linux 8 is now available as a platform image for compute instances. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images. ...

You can now create and manage VMware enabled software-defined data centers (SDDCs) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by using Oracle's VMware ...

You can check whether a compute virtual machine (VM) instance is scheduled for reboot maintenance using a new maintenance_status metric ...

You can now edit the properties of a compute VM instance without having to rebuild the instance or redeploy your ...

Compute now supports customizing the configuration options for launching instances from custom images with image capabilities schemas. For more information, ...

When you use the Console to create a compute instance, you can now use a Secure Shell (SSH) key pair ...

The service limits for Compute instances now apply at the OCPU level for a shape series, instead of at the ...

The VM.Standard.E3.Flex shape and the BM.Standard.E3.128 shape are now available in the India West (Mumbai) region. For more information, see ...

Beginning today, if you are in commercial regions you can now optionally configure dual stack IPv4/IPv6 in your tenancy to ...

Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the following Government Cloud regions:

• UK Gov South ...

The VM.Standard.E3.Flex shape and the BM.Standard.E3.128 shape are now available in the following regions:

• Saudi Arabia West (Jeddah) ...

The VM.Standard.E3.Flex shape and the BM.Standard.E3.128 shape are now available in the Brazil East (Sao Paulo) region. For more information, ...

Schedule-based autoscaling is now available for Compute instance pools.

With schedule-based autoscaling, the instance pool automatically scales at the ...

The VM.Standard.E3.Flex shape and the BM.Standard.E3.128 shape are now available in the following regions:

• Australia East (Sydney)
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Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam) region. For more information, see Managing ...

Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the Australia Southeast (Melbourne) region. For more information, see Managing ...

Ubuntu 20.04 is now available as a platform image. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images.

You can check whether a running virtual machine (VM) or bare metal instance is available (up) or unavailable (down) due ...

A new AMD shape with a customizable OCPU count is now available for virtual machines. You can select the number ...

You can now create custom images from some Marketplace images, such as the Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise image. Marketplace and ...

You can now create intance pools with bare metal instances. This enables support for workloads that require a large number ...

Windows Server 2019 is now available as a platform image. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images.

Compute instances are now billed per second of usage, rather than per hour. This helps you reduce costs when using ...

Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the Japan Central (Osaka) region. For more information, see Managing ...

Compute autoscaling is now available in the UK Gov South (London) region. For more information, see Autoscaling.

Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the US West (Phoenix) region. For more information, see Managing ...

You can change the shape of a virtual machine (VM) instance without having to rebuild your instances or redeploy your ...

You can now copy boot volume backups between regions. See Copying a Boot Volume Backup Between Regions for more information. ...

Oracle Autonomous Linux is now available as a platform image. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images.

You can now launch custom imported images on AMD shapes. You must use paravirtualized launch mode. For more information, see ...

Cluster networking for high performance computing is now available in the Australia East (Sydney) region. For more information, see Managing ...

You can now require that the instances in an instance pool are evenly distributed across each of the fault domains ...

On the Instance Pool Details page, you can now see instance metrics for all of the instances in the instance ...

You can now choose paravirtualized networking when you launch a VM instance. VM.Standard2 and VM.DenseIO2 shapes use paravirtualized networking by ...

You can now export Windows images. This enables you to share custom images across tenancies and regions. For more information, ...

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Events service now supports the following Compute resources: autoscaling configurations and autoscaling policies, cluster networks, console ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Free Tier now includes a set of Always Free resources that allow you to explore Oracle's cloud ...

Images and stacks that you can deploy by using either Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Marketplace now ...

A cluster network is a pool of high performance computing (HPC) instances that are connected with a high-bandwidth, ultra low-latency ...

Dedicated virtual machine hosts provide you with the ability to run your Compute virtual machine (VM) instances on dedicated servers ...

You can monitor the health of the infrastructure for your bare metal instances using a new infrastructure health metric. For ...

You can move Compute instances from one compartment to another. See Managing Compartments and Moving Compute Resources to a Different ...

You can set compartment-specific limits on a resource or resource family using compartment quotas. For more information, see Compartment Quotas ...

You can move instance pools, instance configurations, autoscaling configurations, and custom images from one compartment to another. See Managing Compartments ...

You can now import custom Windows images and run them on VMs using paravirtualized hardware. See Importing Custom Windows Images ...

Minimal Ubuntu images are now available for Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 16.04. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images.

You can now associate a load balancer with an instance pool. If you do this, when you add an instance ...

You can now automatically adjust the number of Compute instances in an instance pool based on performance metrics such as ...

The Compute service now provides VNC console access to bare metal instances, enabling you to remotely troubleshoot malfunctioning instances. For ...

AMD virtual machine (VM) shapes are now available for Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2012 platform images. See the ...

Compute API v1 is no longer supported and will not work. Use Compute API version 20160918 instead. See Core Services ...

Images exported from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are now exported in OCI format, which is a TAR file that contains a ...

By default virtual machine (VM) instances created from Oracle-provided images now launch using a paravirtualized attachment for the boot volume. ...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure now supports launching images using emulated mode on X7 shapes in all regions. If you want to ...

You can now import custom images and run them on VMs using paravirturalized hardware. See Bring Your Own Custom Image ...

You can now create Compute instances from trusted third-party images published by Oracle partners, or pre-built Oracle enterprise images and ...

AMD virtual machine (VM) and bare metal shapes are now available. See Compute Shapes for more information.

Managing your Compute instances has now been made easier with the new instance pools and instance configuration features for Oracle ...

You can now update the custom metadata for an instance. See Update Instance Metadata for more information.

You can now use fault domains to distribute your instances so that they are not on the same physical hardware ...

Oracle-provided Windows images now include cloudbase-init and WinRM. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images - Windows Image Details.

You can now import custom Windows images and run them on VMs using emulated hardware. See Bring Your Own Custom ...

A Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition bare metal image is now available for launching instances. For more information, see Oracle-Provided ...

You can now import custom images and run them on VMs using emulated hardware. See Bring Your Own Custom Image ...

You can now launch a Compute instance by specifying the image OCID. For more information, see Launching an Instance. ...

The Compute service now supports X7 shapes. See Oracle-Provided Images for the images that support X7 shapes, and see the ...

The Compute service now provides serial console access to bare metal instances, enabling you to remotely troubleshoot malfunctioning instances. For ...

The Compute service now provides serial console access to virtual machine (VM) instances, enabling you to remotely troubleshoot malfunctioning instances. ...

Oracle Linux images, versions 6.9-2017.08.17-0, 7.3-2017.08.17-0, and newer, now include Oracle Ksplice, which enables you to apply important security and ...

A Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine (VM) image is now available for launching instances. For more information, see Oracle-Provided ...

The Compute service enables you to share custom images across tenancies and regions using image import/export. See Image Import/Export. ...

Three DenseIO VM shapes are available. For more information, see Overview of the Compute Service.

You can now launch instances using Windows images. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images and Launching an Instance.

Two new Virtual Machine (VM) instances are now available using the Compute service in the Console or API (LaunchInstance ...

An Ubuntu image is now available in preview. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images.

Two CentOS images are now available. For more information, see Oracle-Provided Images.

Two new Virtual Machine (VM) instances are now available using Compute in the Console or API (LaunchInstance). For ...

You can now launch Virtual Machine (VM) instances that run on the same hardware as bare metal instances and leverage ...