Chapter 1: Introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platform that allows consumers to create resources, such as compute instances, databases, networks, containers, functions, and storage, in order to run their applications and workloads. A number of different parties can interact with the OCI cloud. Some of these are actual users, while others are external systems that OCI services communicate with.

So, what do you need from the cloud? Well, an enterprise always looks for scalable, available, and on-demand solutions when they want to move their workload to the cloud. However, for critical enterprise applications, you need no-compromise security and performance ...

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