Want to make sure your data is redundant in more than one region? This is now possible 🙂 You can create a Replication Policy on a bucket and have it automatically replicate object to an other bucket in the same or different region. And you can now setup (active) Data Guard across regions for your… Read More »
From now until May 15th Oracle is offering free OCI training and free Certification for all OCI courses! You can access the following learning paths: Oracle Autonomous Database Specialist Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Operations Associate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer Associate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional… Read More »
Want to connect you services in AWS and OCI? Both clouds offer LAN-to-LAN VPN services, but they are normally used to connect from the Cloud to On-Premise. In this article I will explain how you can connect the OCI and AWS VPN services directly with each other. Step 1 – Setting up non overlapping Private… Read More »
The Oracle Cloud is Elastic! Not only with it’s Infrastructure services, but also with its PaaS Services like the Autonomous Database, Analytics, Visual Builder Service and more.
Get 60% cost reduction and Super Speeds when needed, all on-the-fly! Check out this example for running Oracle Analytics Cloud and the Autonomous Database.
Since I released an iPhone App to manage OCI, I frequently received the question if such an app is available for Android. I am happy to report that Javier from Colombia has build an OCI Monitor for Android The OCI Monitor for Android allows you to see you Compute, Database and Autonomous Database instances from… Read More »
Want to automate your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform, but not want to write complex recipes by hand? No Worry, use the OCI terraform Resource Discovery service to create all the recipes for you! Check out my simple demonstration on Youtube.
With the opening of all the new OCI Datacenter regions, I updated the OCI Manager App to support them. Also a new feature in the app is to see all the world-wide news about OCI from various blogs and the official Oracle channels. You can find the App here in the Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oci-manager/id1439011461
After the opening of Osaka last week, the list of available regions for OCI just got extended by 3 new regions. Amsterdam, Melbourne and Jeddah. I am based in Zoetermeer (near The Hague) and have been using Frankfurt as my main region. I just spun up my first Amsterdam instances and noticed a Latency improvement… Read More »
I am working on a project that needs to know the prices of the OCI Services. After some digging (thank you Google), I stumbled on this webpage: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/ucpricing.html This page gives a great overview of all the services and the prices (list prices, without special discounts). I noticed the page loads the prices, so thru… Read More »
It is clear, the Oracle Cloud is attracting more and more users. With that the community of blogs, youtube channels and github repos is growing with OCI related content! I wanted to highlight 3 new blogs, if you are into OCI, for sure to check these out: Alex’s Seriously pretty looking Cloudness blog with great info OCI… Read More »
This week there is a great post on the oracle-base blog written by Tim on what kind of things you can do with the Oracle Cloud Free Tier. For each component he has written a detailed instruction on how to create en configure the resource. So if you want to start playing with the Oracle… Read More »
As Artificial Intelligence might sounds scary, here is your opportunity to learn more about it on November 19th. Wim Coekaerts will host 3 webcasts about the new Oracle Autonomous Linux. Autonomous Linux is an OS you can use for your projects in the Oracle Cloud. This OS will be maintained for you by Oracle from… Read More »
OCI has been offering bare metal servers from the start. Besides just running a single OS with maybe containers on it, you can also run your own virtualization stack on it. Just to be clean, this can be done without nested virtualization, but natively on the bare metal hardware. OCI support bringing your own hypervisor… Read More »
Rodrigo has been making scripts for OCI for a while now. Yesterday he again added some great work to his collection. A super script to retrieve all your consumption / billing data from OCI and save it to JSON files, so you can easily process it in excel or any kind of analytics software. His… Read More »
Since a few months the Oracle Cloud and Azure Cloud support being directly connected to each other. Ben Haworth, a solution engineer from Oracle and Adam Stuart, a technical specialist from Microsoft join up to show how easily and quickly this interconnect can be made.
Yes, A new version of the OCI Manager app hit the App Store today! What’s new: Dark mode support Basic support for consumption data Support for announcements Some bug fixes and UI improvements As consumption information is not available via the normal OCI APIs, you need to specify you username/passwd and ACC ID and IDCS… Read More »
I work in a shared OCI environment, where everyone has their own compartments. While most of my colleagues nicely only create resources in their own compartments, this does sometimes go wrong. Then the quests starts, who created this? You can use the Audit logs to find the event that created the resource, but this can… Read More »
Exporting Windows Instances The release of new OCI features is not slowing down 🙂 And I am happy to report that you can now export Windows Instances as well. This was already possible for Linux bases instances. Having the ability to export Windows instances, allows you much easier to replicate those instances across regions. So… Read More »
Want to run some of your VMware services in the public cloud? Well you (soon) can do this on the Oracle Cloud, without having to get it as a managed service (and pay much more), like with the VMware+AWS arrangement. You get full control to build and manage your cloud VMware environment exactly as it… Read More »
Lots and lots of new at this year’s Oracle Openworld event. One major one is the Always Free Cloud Services. Always Free Cloud Services Oracle is introducing always free cloud services! Autonomous Database:– 2 always free Autonomous Database instances per OCI Tenancy– 20GB database storage per instance– 1OCPU per instance– APEX– REST interface (ORDS)– SQL… Read More »