What Are OCI Landing Zones?

Oracle Exadata Database Service at a Glance

Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure combines Oracle’s best-in-class database platform with cloud agility. Perfect for demanding workloads, it delivers top performance, robust security, and full control—without the complexity of hardware management. Your teams focus on innovation, not routine administration.

The Exadata Advantage

Dedicated infrastructure delivers isolation, predictable performance, and control for strict compliance. Automation manages deployment, scaling, maintenance, backup, and recovery—freeing IT for strategic work. You gain cloud agility and enterprise-grade reliability while reducing complexity, boosting efficiency, and maintaining on-premises standards.

Exadata Database Service in OCI Landing Zones

OCI Landing Zones establish an automated, governed cloud foundation. With native support for Exadata Database Service, organizations can deploy robust cloud environments built to best-practice standards—accelerating cloud adoption and consistency.

Key business benefits:

  • Standardized automation: Deploy repeatable, best-practice baselines using Terraform across regions or tenancies. Key components: Compartments (access control), virtual cloud networks (VCNs, subnets, gateways, security lists), IAM groups, policies, and dynamic groups.
  • Faster time-to-value: Provision Exadata Cloud Infrastructure, VM Clusters, databases, and essential services in hours, not days.
  • Operational simplicity: Customize infrastructure, networking, storage, and maintenance. Configure database resources, scale easily, integrate with other Landing Zone modules, and automate lifecycle management.
  • Strategic IT enablement: Accelerate setup for mission-critical workloads. Gain cloud agility, resilience, and Exadata’s industry-leading performance for both new and existing workloads.

What’s In the Exadata Database Service Module?

Access Terraform-ready automation module for provisioning:

  • Exadata Cloud Infrastructure: Flexible resource configuration, including Exadata model, server types and count, maintenance scheduling, and advanced options.
  • VM Clusters: Adjustable OCPU/ECPU, memory, storage, networking, Grid Infrastructure version, licensing, cloud automation settings, and tags.
  • Databases: Create and configure Oracle Database Home, Container, and Pluggable Database resources. Choose names, character sets, software images, versions, backup settings, and more.

Conclusion

OCI Landing Zones and the Exadata Database Service module accelerate and simplify your cloud migration. Built-in automation helps you onboard quickly and confidently. Try the module to unlock your cloud strategy.

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