Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Oracle Alloy Overview

Oracle Alloy is a complete cloud platform that helps an operator become a cloud provider and resell more than 200 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services under the operator's brand. The operator controls the commercial model, customer relationship, pricing, subscriptions, and support experience. Oracle provides the underlying cloud platform, software updates, training, tooling, and operational support.

Oracle Alloy is designed for operators that serve local or industry-specific markets. These markets can require data residency, localization, low latency, regulatory compliance, modernization, hybrid integration, multicloud integration, and business continuity. The platform supports public-sector and private-sector offerings.

Oracle Alloy differs from OCI Dedicated Region in its operating model. OCI Dedicated Region is used by one organization for its own workloads. Oracle Alloy is used by an operator that offers cloud services to multiple end customers. Oracle Alloy lets the operator resell the OCI service portfolio to end customers, own the customer relationship, and run the service as a private-label cloud offering.

Oracle Alloy combines an Oracle-managed cloud foundation with an operator-managed business and customer experience layer. Oracle supplies the cloud platform, secure service operations, and ongoing product lifecycle management. The operator provides the hosting environment and runs the customer-facing cloud business on that foundation.

Oracle Alloy has the following key characteristics:

  • Oracle Alloy uses the same base footprint and growth model as OCI Dedicated Region. The base footprint starts with 3 racks and can expand with additional capacity racks and network expansion racks as consumption grows.

  • Provides an OCI-based cloud platform with more than 200 cloud native services and the same core architecture patterns used in public OCI.

  • Supports operator-controlled branding, rate cards, packaging, account types, discount schedules, quotas, and end-customer lifecycle management.

  • Supports colocation in operator-owned or operator-managed data centers, subject to Oracle site qualification and build requirements.

  • Targets markets that require local control, strong sovereignty posture, industry-specific service design, and direct operator ownership of service delivery.