Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) periodically releases new generations of Compute shapes. The latest shapes let you take advantage of newer hardware and a better price-performance ratio. When a shape is several years old and newer-generation shapes suited for the same purposes are available, the old shape transitions to become a previous generation shape.
Today, we’re announcing the transition of our AMD E3 (Standard) shapes to previous generation starting March 31, 2022. Previous generation shapes are still fully supported. You can keep using your existing E3 shapes that you already have. However, OCI can’t assure fulfillment of more capacity for certain high-demand regions, where capacity might be limited because the underlying hardware has reached the sustaining phase of its lifecycle.
What does SKU transition mean?
Because older generation E3 SKUs are no longer manufactured and OCI can’t purchase more hardware from its vendors after the dates noted. We can’t guarantee fulfillment of more capacity of E3 based shapes in certain high-demand regions.
Who and how does it impact?
This transition impacts all customers using these shapes. If you’re currently using the E3 SKUs, OCI continues to support your usage in all regions in which E3 shapes are currently offered. However, we can’t support any further growth of E3 SKU in any of the regions with limited capacity. New regions coming online after March 31, 2022 don’t have these shapes available in the region.
What is our recommendation?
Before the transition date of E3 SKUs, we recommend using alternate platforms to grow your usage on OCI and encourage you to qualify new generation shapes as soon as possible. Alternate new generation shapes for E3 based shapes are listed in the following table.
If you have any questions about this notification, reach out to me or the OCI Compute product team members.