About Cloud Core
The cloud core consists of the following components: Compute, Storage, Functions, Containers, and Database Services.
OCI services portfolio offers a range of options to implement your cloud strategy. You can choose OCI services to be consumed from public or government regions, or get a dedicated OCI region just for your organization with all the services. Oracle Database Exadata Cloud at Customer comes with a cloud operating model and gives you full control over the physical Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Services like Azure Interconnect and the Oracle Database service for Azure give you the choice to use best services across clouds.
The following diagram shows the portfolio of cloud core infrastructure and components:
OCI includes a large portfolio of services and provides various choices for your multicloud solutions. Organizations can leverage the OCI core infrastructure services like compute, storage, and networking as required, and also to choose from database services with an optimized infrastructure, or as a fully-automated PaaS service. You can build multicloud solutions with Data and AI services from OCI that provide the ability to create simple low-code applications, or run business analytics on large data sets. OCI provides all these services in multicloud solution architectures with the ability for governance and administration across cloud providers.
About Application and Database Split-Stack Architecture
The following diagram shows a common multicloud use case for application and database split-stack architecture. Oracle Exadata Database Service provides a variety of options leverage OCI for these architectures types.
Organizations can run Oracle Database on OCI to get the best performance and price point. You can choose a database system infrastructure on OCI for simple workloads or deploy RAC (real application clusters) for high availability.
You can also get Oracle Exadata Database Service cloud service for scalability and high performance when you need to run business critical applications in cloud.
You can use Oracle Autonomous Database (ADB) where automation and minimum database management are key requirements.