Monday, October 14, 2019

Overview of OCI services - Focus on Always Free Tier

Continuing from my OCI series:
Moving On-Premises Oracle Apex application to OCI Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing

Once you have signed up on OCI, you can see the various links to the services being offered:

There are a lot of services available on this list. We will be introduced to the following during the course of this series:

  • Database - Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP)

This will allow us to get a serverless database instance. Oracle autonomously operates all aspects of the database life cycle from database placement to backup and updates. Here is the link to the Oracle Help Center page for ATP: Getting Started with Autonomous Transaction Processing

  • Object Storage

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage service is an internet-scale, high-performance storage platform that offers reliable and cost-efficient data durability. The Object Storage service can store an unlimited amount of unstructured data of any content type, including analytic data and rich content, like images and videos.

As we will be migrating from an existing application, we will use the OS to import data from our existing database (expdb/impdb)

Here is the link to the official documentation: Overview of Object Storage

The Always Free limitations are:

Database:

  1. 2 Database instances
  2. 1 OCPU per database
  3. 20 Gb Exadata storage per database
  4. Doesn't support full backup and restore
  5. Deactivated after 7 days of inactivity, and maybe permanently deleted after 9- days. Banner and email notifications are sent before this happens.
  6. It can be upgraded to paying status, which will remove these restrictions.

Storage:

You can use 10 GiB of Object Storage and 10 GiB of Archive Storage for free in your home region. 

Next: Creating ATP Database Instance

Sachin
BuzzClan LLC

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