In April 2021, we announced general availability of burstable virtual machine (VM) instances on Intel X9 and AMD E3 and E4 shapes on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) for workloads that typically have low CPU utilization with occasional spikes in usage. Burstable VMs offer exceptional flexibility and cost-efficiency by allowing workloads to auto burst up to 100% CPU utilization for short periods of time at no additional cost and lower margins than regular VMs.
Burstable VMs on Ampere A1
Soon, we’re releasing burstable VMs on Ampere A1 for Arm-based workloads, including web servers, microservices, continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, development, and test environments. These workloads typically have low CPU utilization and occasionally need to use more CPU when incoming traffic or application requests spike.
The Ampere A1 shape is based on Ampere Altra processors, the industry’s first 80-core Arm server at only $0.01 per core hour with flexible sizing from 1–80 OCPUs and 1–64 GB of memory per core. The OCI Ampere A1 compute platform provides deterministic performance, linear scalability, a secure architecture and a superior price-performance in the market.We’re adding burstable VMs to the Ampere A1 Arm instance to double down on flexibility and exceptional price-performance. Arm cloud developers can take advantage of the unique architectural advantages of Ampere A1 combined with even lower costs of burstable VMs.
Getting started with burstable VMs
To learn more about burstable instances, visit the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation page.