Across all industries, decision-makers are being driven more than ever to embrace the cloud to meet growing demands for flexibility, scalability, and cost optimization. The benefits of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) resolve a lot of the issues seen with on-premises data centers, like operational costs and resource limitations, and allow organizations to leverage the newest technology. With 47 years of legacy and recognition as a leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant, Oracle’s Gen 2 Cloud offers industry-leading infrastructure, platform, and SaaS services, revolutionizing cloud economics.

ESRI’s ArcGIS is the leading geospatial platform, used by 95% of national governments and 80% of the world’s largest cities. It supports critical functions across public safety, infrastructure planning, and economic development.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the ideal platform for ArcGIS ESRI, particularly with the adoption of ArcGIS PRO, which requires a GPU for best performance. OCI offers a variety of GPU shapes without upfront costs, maintenance, and scalability limitations seen with on-premises GPU resources. Leveraging OCI, ArcGIS users can enhance operational efficiencies, improve computing power, expand storage, and streamline application development, deployment, and migration to production environments.

 

ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for high availability
ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to support a highly available and scalable ArcGIS application.

Regional Breadth and Deployment Options

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers flexible deployment models to meet a wide range of compliance and security needs, suiting the security needs of ArcGIS users in regulated spaces.

Government Cloud regions support FedRAMP High and DISA Impact Level 4 authorizations, while Dedicated Region brings the full OCI experience into customer-controlled environments. For organizations needing edge computing capabilities, OCI can be deployed directly in the data center.

Oracle also collaborates with other cloud providers to support hybrid and multi-cloud strategies with dedicated interconnects, enabling faster innovation and seamless migration.

Best Price/Performance

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Gen 2 Architecture differentiates its compute, storage, and networking from other clouds.
CaptionOracle Cloud Infrastructure Gen 2 Architecture differentiates its compute, storage, and networking from other clouds.

Oracle Cloud is the first public cloud built from the ground up to be optimized for every application. By rethinking core engineering and system design, Oracle ensures superior reliability and performance across the entire service stack, for both general workloads and AI-enabled applications like ArcGIS Pro.

Oracle Cloud’s compute service offers flexible compute shapes, NVIDIA GPUs, and utilizes off-box virtualization to enhance security and optimize resource utilization. With a bare metal cloud architecture, OCI provides single-tenant access to high-performance bare metal instances, including up to 160 cores on Ampere or 256 cores on AMD. For VM instances, flexible infrastructure eliminates the need for “t-shirt sizing,” enabling optimal resource allocation. NVIDIA GPUs for bare metal or VMs on OCI provide powerful processing capabilities that significantly enhance the performance of ArcGIS Pro and its AI features, enabling faster rendering, analysis, and visualization of complex geospatial data. Off-box virtualization isolates network functions to the cloud control plane, minimizing the network attack surface while improving performance with 100 percent throughput. These benefits make OCI compute ideal for scalable, high-performance workloads like ESRI ArcGIS.

Oracle’s storage services, including block, object, and file storage, are reliable, scalable, and secure. The block storage service offers flexible volumes with the best scale and performance in the industry and is 5x to 20x cheaper than the competition. Similarly, OCI object storage is highly scalable and durable, offering 99.99 percent to 11 nines of durability, with cross-region replication for disaster recovery. OCI file storage is a scalable service offering up to 8 exabytes, supporting the NFSv3 protocol for large compute clusters and shared storage needs. Together, these storage services provide a comprehensive, cost-effective, and high-performance platform for diverse workloads and data protection requirements.

RDMA cluster networking, low data egress costs, and dedicated connectivity are key advantages of OCI’s networking services. RDMA provides a low-latency, high-bandwidth network, ensuring consistent throughput for enterprise workloads. This is especially beneficial for ArcGIS, enabling faster geospatial data transfer and real-time processing. Customers also benefit from 10 TB of free monthly data egress. Oracle FastConnect provides dedicated connectivity up to 400 Gbps per port with a private, high-speed connection to on-premises infrastructure or other cloud regions, bypassing the public internet. This reduces latency and improves network performance for critical workloads. Oracle’s network services help optimize workload performance, improve cost-efficiency, and ensure secure access to essential resources.

Financially Backed SLAs

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the only cloud service provider that offers manageability, network performance, and block disk performance SLAs.

Oracle’s Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for OCI Compute services (and more) cover Availability, Manageability, and Performance (Both Disk and Network Performance). In addition to the standard SLAs our competitors offer for availability and performance, OCI is the only cloud service provider that offers manageability, network performance, and block disk performance SLAs.

Accreditations

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure meets rigorous security and compliance standards, making it a trusted platform for organizations with demanding regulatory requirements. OCI has earned several federal agency accreditations, including FedRAMP HIGH and DOD DISA Impact Levels 2 through 6 depending on U.S. data center.

For organizations requiring public sector compliance, OCI also supports CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) compliance, making it an ideal choice for law enforcement and public safety customers and their applications, including ESRI ArcGIS.

For more details on our certifications and accreditations, please visit our Cloud Compliance page.

Closing Summary and Call to Action

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers a reliable, high-performance foundation for organizations using ESRI ArcGIS. With advanced compute options, GPU acceleration, scalable storage, and enterprise-grade networking, OCI delivers the infrastructure needed for modern geospatial applications.

Its global availability, flexible deployment models, and consistent pricing allow organizations to scale confidently and cost-effectively. And with industry-leading SLAs and deep compliance support, OCI ensures security, availability, and performance across all environments.

For organizations looking to elevate their ArcGIS workloads, OCI provides the tools, flexibility, and reliability needed to turn data into actionable insight at scale, in real time, and on your terms.

To learn more about ESRI ArcGIS by visiting ESRI ArcGIS’s product page.

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