The 11 new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services and capabilities cover compute, networking, and storage.

Compute

Container Instances allow the use of containers without having to directly manage the host VM or Kubernetes orchestration.

AMD E4.Dense Compute instances include attached NVMe drives for low-latency storage, thus suiting workloads including databases, virtualised direct-attached storage, caching, and data warehousing.

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution on AMD uses new AMD-based 32, 64 and 128 core options for i"ndustry-leading" VM deployment density options per SDDC host, for high CPU or high memory use workloads.

Networking

Content Delivery Network (CDN) Interconnect provides direct peering connections with selected CDN providers with no outbound bandwidth charges for OCI Object Storage. This feature is initially available in North America for the Cloudflare CDN.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) Service does what it says on the tin. The OCI service provides integrated APIs, console, UCM billing and stronger integrations between OCI Object Storage, Compute and CDN to reduce origin-server-to-CDN egress fees.

Flexible Web Application Firewall (WAF) – a single WAF policy can protect applications from common exploits, with enforcement at the load balancer or on the edge.

Web Application Acceleration (WAA) supports caching and compression of web HTTP responses in the load balancer.

Network Visualiser allows customers to perform a configuration-based connectivity check and visualise the network path(s) along with information about the virtual network entities in the path.

vTAP provides OCI Network packet capture and inspection out of band for troubleshooting, security analysis, and data monitoring without affecting performance.

Storage

Flexible block volumes with performance-based auto-tuning enables customers to automatically change the performance characteristics of block storage volumes as demand fluctuates. Oracle claims this capability is unique in the cloud market.

High Availability ZFS is a packaged stack for ZFS file servers using OCI Block Volumes as the underlying storage.

"OCI continues to break the rules in the cloud, helping customers run their workloads faster, more securely, and more economically," said Oracle executive vice president for OCI Clay Magouyrk.

"Customers can build cloud native apps on OCI with support for open, standards-based Kubernetes, while AI and high-performance computing customers can build some of the fastest computing clusters in the cloud."

Oracle Red Bull Racing application development group leader Ian Brunton said "OCI has enabled us to increase the number of Monte Carlo simulations we are able to run by 25%.

"By leveraging a modern technology stack, utilising the power and flexibility of Kubernetes, we can scale up our simulation platform whilst keeping costs within the tight spending regulations defined by the sport."