For over 15 years, Exadata has been the premier platform for Oracle Database workloads. Now, you may have thought that Exadata was only for mission critical workloads and the largest databases or is targeted only for large enterprise customers. Well, think again! Our newest database cloud service, Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, is a complete game changer – it provides an elastic, public cloud service at a price that almost every customer can afford. This is Exadata for Everyone – Any Workload, Any Customer.
Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure has a low-cost entry point that provides the power of Exadata to workloads and organizations of any size. To illustrate, let’s look at the minimum configuration:
- 1 Cluster with 2 Virtual Machines (VMs)
- 8 ECPUs per VM (16 total, equivalent to 2 OCPUs per VM)
- 300 GB of Exascale Database Storage
| Initial Infrastructure Cost | Bring-Your-Own License ECPUs | License Included ECPUs |
|---|---|---|
| $0.48 per hour | $1.77 per hour | $5.5 per hour |
Compare this cost to AWS RDS Custom for Oracle, an alternative co-managed database cloud service on commodity infrastructure, but without the Exadata platform optimizations or performance features that Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure provides. An AWS RDS Custom for Oracle solution with a db.r6i.2xlarge instance type (which has similar compute capacity but no Oracle RAC functionality) and io2 storage configured to the highest level of IOPS possible (256K as compared to Exadata’s millions of IOPS, which we provide at no additional charge) is priced at $36.05/hour. More than 20X the cost for BYOL – without any of the Exadata performance features!
While it is true that you could configure a smaller single instance of AWS RDS Custom for Oracle, or you could configure an instance running Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE) on this service, and these configurations could potentially cost less than Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure – these configurations would not have comparable performance, functionality, or reliability. It’s simple – Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure’s price-performance ROI can’t be matched by any other cloud database service!
Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure has a minimum service commitment of just 48 hours and the ability to scale consumption up and down as business requirements change. This provides you the benefits of Exadata without a large capital expenditure or long-term commitment.
Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure is built on our new intelligent data architecture for cloud, Exascale. Exascale provides Exadata Database Service a revolutionary, hyperscale-ready storage foundation – meaning that you can start small with as little as 300GB and scale your storage as needed. This elastic scalability lets you rapidly innovate and build the next generation of AI-based applications with a small infrastructure entry point that scales with your business needs. It also provides thin database cloning capabilities in Exadata, enabling you to quickly create hundreds of database clones for your developers while incurring incremental storage costs only as data changes. This helps you standardize development, test, and production on one data management platform, reducing your risk and operating costs.
Many of today’s applications are built using cloud-native approaches to development such as microservices, DevOps, and document data models. This often leads to customers deploying multiple single-purpose databases and spending a large amount of development effort on data management, integration, and migration – which is of no business value. Oracle’s approach is different. The converged data engine, Oracle Database 23ai, provides the fuel for innovation: time. It delivers data in the format developers need, and includes powerful, built-in AI Vector Search and Retrieval Augmented Generation capabilities. Its native low/no code development platform enables rapid application development without the need for writing code. These features return time to your developers to innovate so they can focus on building features that drive your business forward.
Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure delivers Oracle Database 23ai’s innovative capabilities on the best performing, most scalable platform for Oracle Database – Exadata. All the benefits of Exadata – extreme performance, the highest levels of availability, robust built-in security, and a single vendor for your entire data management stack are available as soon as the service is provisioned at a price point that makes Exadata affordable to organizations of all sizes. And, since it’s a cloud database service, automation to simplify management is built in and available via both web UI and REST APIs, freeing up your valuable DBAs and IT staff to focus on business innovation and not “keeping the lights on” lifecycle management operations.
So, what does all this mean? Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure now makes Exadata Affordable for Everyone and Every Workload. Exadata is not just for the most important, mission and business critical workloads or only for the largest enterprise customers anymore! No matter the size of your workload or organization, the best platform for Oracle Database is now available as a public cloud service that scales with your business needs. Try it out today!
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