OCI Compute Shapes E6 Standard Forms
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E6 Shapes Provide Groundbreaking Cloud Performance and Efficiency with 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs
AMD announced today that the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E6 Standard forms are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors. According to OCI testing, OCI Compute E6 forms can offer up to a 2X boost in cost to performance over the previous E5 instance generation to 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, the top server CPUs in the world for corporate, AI, and cloud.
Building on the success of the preceding E5 generation, the new OCI Compute E6 forms offer cost-effectiveness and leadership performance for applications that are compute-intensive and general-purpose. With the addition of these OCI forms, all of the main cloud service providers now offer over a thousand compute instances with AMD EPYC CPUs.
Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager, AMD’s Server Business, stated, “The quick uptake of AMD EPYC processors in the cloud highlights its ability to deliver innovative, high-performance solutions that enable the partners to create highly competitive cloud offerings.” “The combination of OCI’s flexible infrastructure and the performance of 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors helps customers accelerate their most demanding workloads while optimising their cloud infrastructure.”
Donald Lu, senior vice president, software development, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, stated, “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is dedicated to giving AMD customers the best-performing, most economical cloud offerings.” “With the new OCI computing E6 Standard designs driven by AMD EPYC processors offer unmatched computing power, scalability, and efficiency for today’s most complex workloads.”
Availability and Customer Adoption
The US East (Ashburn), US West (Phoenix), US Midwest (Chicago), Germany Central (Frankfurt), and UK South (London) are among the regions where OCI Compute E6 Standard bare metal instances and virtual machines are currently accessible. More regions will be added in the upcoming months.
Introducing OCI Compute E6 Standard Instances from Oracle: Double Performance at the Same Cost
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E6 Standard bare metal and flex virtual machine instances powered by the newest 5th Gen AMD EPYC Processors are now generally available, which we are thrilled to announce. Offering general-purpose compute instances built on the newest AMD EPYC CPUs, OCI was one of the first significant cloud providers to do so. With up to twice the performance of E5 at the same cost, E6 represents a major improvement in both performance and value for the clients.
A New Standard in Performance
E6 Standard bare metal instances are designed to handle workloads that require a lot of computation and high throughput. Each instance has 200 Gbps networking throughput, 3 TB of memory, and 256 cores. Compared to E5 Standard, that offers up to 2X the performance on industry-standard benchmarks, with 33% more computation and memory and 2X the network bandwidth.
The 5th Gen AMD EPYC Processor, which is the foundation of the E6 Standard, has the following features:
- 2.7 GHz is the base frequency, which is 13% higher than the preceding generation.
- Maximum Boost frequency of 11% greater than the previous version, up to 4.1 GHz
- For workloads involving a lot of integers, the “Zen 5” architecture can increase instructions per cycle (IPC) by up to 17%.
E6 Standard offers up to a 50% increase in price-performance for virtual machines and a 225% price-performance gain for bare metal instances when compared to E5 Standard.
BM.Standard.E5.192 vs BM.Standard.E6.256
VM.Standard.E6.Flex vs VM.Standard.E5.Flex 2 OCPU 24GB Memory
VM.Standard.E6.Flex vs VM.Standard.E5.Flex 8 OCPU 96GB Memory
Built for Demanding Workloads
E6 Standard has a memory bandwidth of 6400MHz, which is 45% more than E5 Standard, and a 33% larger L3 cache (512 MB). In conjunction with the AVX-512 complete 512-bit data route for vector and floating-point operations, E6 Standard provides exceptional performance on workloads that are memory-bound and require a lot of computation.
Flexible Virtual Machines for Every Need
Unmatched versatility is provided by E6 Standard virtual machine instances, which offer 1 to 126 OCPUs and 1 GB to 1,454 GB of memory. Whether you’re running a memory-intensive enterprise application or a lightweight containerised project, you can customise your instance to meet any demand to this degree of granularity.
| Shape Type | Shape Name | OCPU | Memory | Storage | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bare Metal | BM.Standard.E6.256 | 256 | 3072 GB | 2 x 960 GB NVMe Up to 1 PB of remote Block Storage | 200 Gbps |
| Virtual Machine | VM.Standard.E6.Flex | 1 – 126 | 1–64 GB per OCPU up to 1,454 GB | Up to 1 PB of remote Block Storage | 1 – 99 Gbps |
E6 Standard instances Pricing
The cost of E6 Standard instances is the same as that of E5 Standard instances:
- $0.03 for each OCPU-hour
- $0.002 for each gigabyte of RAM
Ideal Use Cases for E6 Standard Instances
E6 Standard is perfect for executing a variety of applications, such as:
- On-demand video, conferencing, and video converting
- Batch operations in massive parallel
- Databases stored in memory and caching fleets
- Enterprise application backend servers
- Application and web servers
- Servers for gaming
- Environments for developing apps
- Processing big data (e.g. Spark, Hadoop)
- Real-time analytics and financial modelling
- Computers with high performance (HPC)
- Three-dimensional rendering and scientific simulations
E6 Standard provided the computing power you want without sacrificing affordability, demonstrating up to 2x per-core performance increases over E5 Standard in the workload tests.
BM.Standard.E5.192 vs BM.Standard.E6.256
Available Now
E6 Standard virtual machine and bare metal instances are currently accessible in certain US locations, and a further rollout is anticipated in the upcoming months.
- Ashburn, US East
- Phoenix, US West
- Midwest United States—Chicago
- Frankfurt, Central Germany
- London, UK South
Conclusion
OCI offers industry-leading value with E6 Standard by fusing low costs, enormous scalability, and outstanding performance. E6 Standard provides the performance you require at the expected cost, regardless of whether you’re operating web and application servers, video transcoding, cloud-native applications, or general-purpose workloads. At the same cost, up to twice as much performance. Unrivalled worth.
OCI compute shapes
The number of OCPUs, RAM, and other resources allotted to an instance are determined by a template called a shape. AMD processors, Intel processors, and Arm-based processors can compute shapes.
Basic details regarding the geometries available for virtual machines (VMs), dedicated virtual machine hosts, and bare metal instances are covered in this article.
OCI compute shapes pricing
To determine how much your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure project will cost each month, utilise the Cost Estimator. See Oracle PaaS and IaaS Universal Credits Service Descriptions’ Billing and Cost Management and Oracle Compute Cloud Services sections for comprehensive details on billing.
vCPUs and OCPUs
Oracle has a distinct approach to calculating resource pricing. The unit of measurement for CPUs on x86 CPUs (AMD and Intel) and Arm CPUs (OCI Ampere Compute) is the Oracle CPU (OCPU), which represents actual CPU cores. One execution thread of a real CPU core is represented by a virtual CPU (vCPU), which is the industry standard for quantifying computing resources.
One OCPU is equivalent to two vCPUs for x86-based computing because the majority of CPU architectures, including x86, operate two threads per physical core. On both X86 (Intel and AMD) and OCI Ampere Compute processors, the minimal unit of provisioning for OCI Compute begins with one OCPU.
The provisioning units for compute instances are as follows:
- Arm A1 (Compute) 1 OCPU equals Arm A1 (Compute) 1 core or 1 vCPU
- Arm A2 (Compute) 1 OCPU equals 2 Arm A2 (Compute) cores or 2 vCPUs
- On AMD and Intel x86, 1 OCPU equals 2 vCPUs.
See Cloud Price List for further details.
For a number of years, Oracle Compute has been around half as expensive as AWS. However, without initially understanding AMD architecture, it is difficult for people to quickly and clearly recognise that because of OCPU represents at least two vCPUs (or more). A straight comparison utilising different terms is displayed in the following table:
It’s obvious that Oracle costs less, but it’s less obvious especially to people who don’t know much about OCPU that you receive about the same amount of compute in the first Oracle row as you do with the AWS option, and twice as much with the second Oracle option. Oracle’s advantage becomes evident when the same data is recast using industry-standard terminology.
