About Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure combines the elasticity and utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure to deliver high-performance, high availability, and cost-effective infrastructure services.

Depending on the shape you select for the Oracle SOA Cloud Service region during instance provisioning, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides you with dedicated physical server access for the highest performance and strongest isolation.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic is an enterprise-grade service that provides a rapidly provisioned virtual compute environment to easily migrate Oracle workloads and run them at scale with deployment options and predictable performance.

The underlying compute environment is a virtual machine (VM). A virtual machine is an independent computing environment that runs on top of physical bare metal hardware. The virtualization makes it possible to run multiple VMs that are isolated from each other. VMs are ideal for running applications that do not require the performance and resources (CPU, memory, network bandwidth, storage) of an entire physical machine.

Differences Between Instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic

The Oracle WebLogic Server environment that your Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance provides in either type of infrastructure is substantially the same. A few differences exist in the underlying infrastructure components and in the supported capabilities. Awareness of these differences will help you choose an appropriate region while creating the instance.

Feature	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic
Availability domains	Each region has multiple isolated availability domains, with separate power and cooling. The availability domains within a region are interconnected using a low-latency network. When creating an instance, you can select the availability domain in which the instance should be placed.	Not applicable.
Compute shapes	`VM.Standard.` and `BM.Standard.` shapes. Note: The list of available shapes may vary by region.	Standard and high memory shapes. Note: The list of available shapes may vary by region.
Networking	You must attach each instance to a subnet, in a virtual cloud network created in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.	You can attach instances to IP networks defined in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Classic.
Reserving public IP addresses	Not supported.	Supported.
Scaling the shape of a node	Not supported.	Supported.
Adding block storage	The minimum size and scaling increment of block storage volumes is in multiples of 50 GB.	The minimum size and scaling increment for block storage volumes is 1 GB.
Managing access rules	Configure security rules in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure interfaces.	Use the Oracle SOA Cloud Service Console to configure access rules.
Object storage for backups	You must create the object storage bucket in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure before creating the instance.	You can create the object storage container either before or during instance creation.
Billing	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services can only be billed through Universal Credit Service accounts. Existing Universal Credit Service accounts can be used.	You can buy Oracle SOA Cloud Service on a metered or non-metered basis.

Differences Between Instances in Oracle Cloud at Customer and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

External database: External database support is not available on Oracle Cloud at Customer.
Public access network and database network: Option to specify the public access network and database network while provisioning is not available on Oracle Cloud at Customer.
NFS remote backup: Option to specify NFS remote backup is not available on Oracle Cloud at Customer.
Domain and database backup: Both domain and database backup are supported on Oracle Cloud at Customer.

Workflow for Creating an Instance in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Task	More Information
Create the required network, storage, and security resources in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.	To learn about these resources, see Prerequisites for Oracle Platform Services in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation. For step-by-step instructions to create these resources, see Creating the Infrastructure Resources Required for Oracle Platform Services.
Create the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance.	See Provision an Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance