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Create Your First Resources

Learn how to create your first resources to use with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

OCI resources are region-specific, such as a virtual cloud network (VCN), or availability domain specific, such as a compute instance. After you create a Free Trial account, use the following tutorials to learn how to create your first resources.

Learn How to Create Resources

Compute

Launch your first Linux instance
Launch your first Windows instance
Use Resource Manager to create a Compute instance
Understand OCI Compute instances - YouTube

Object Storage

Get started with Object Storage
Object Storage in OCI - YouTube
Create an Object Storage service - LiveLabs

Networking

Create a VCN using the Console
Create a VCN using the CLI
How to Create a VCN - YouTube
Create a VCN - Oracle LiveLabs

Database

Create an OCI Database system
Get started with Oracle Autonomous Database - YouTube
Get started with Oracle Autonomous Database - LiveLabs

Block Volume

Create a block volume - Linux
Create a block volume - Windows
Block Volume Overview - YouTube

Load Balancer

Get started with Load Balancer
Load Balancer Overview - YouTube
Deploy HA applications using Load Balancer - LiveLabs

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OCI Cloud Adoption Framework
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