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Oracle Cloud's $304 Flex VM: First Observations from Fresh Deployments

Posted by gsgreen |2 hours ago |3 comments

gsgreen 2 hours ago

Small OCI terminology note that I hadn't realized before adding OCI to the dataset: Oracle uses "OCPU" differently than the vCPU language most AWS/GCP/Azure users are used to. In OCI, 1 OCPU generally maps to 1 physical core / 2 hardware threads, so this 8 OCPU Flex VM reports as a 16 vCPU instance in the benchmark data. That makes it closer to the 16 vCPU / 64 GB class when comparing across providers.

petrostsolis 2 hours ago[1 more]

Too many benchmark comparisons focus on the best single run. Looking at consistency over time seems to me much more useful than chasing the highest peak performance.