🔴 Oracle OCI
OCI Ampere A1 ARM Price Cut 20% — Already Cheapest ARM Compute Gets Cheaper
OCI reduced A1 Flex (Ampere Altra ARM) pricing 20%. New pricing: $0.0064/OCPU/hr (was $0.0080) and $0.0010/GB RAM/hr (was $0.0015). 8vCPU/16GB now $0.0512/hr ($37/month) — among the cheapest ARM compute in any cloud.
TCOIQ: OCI A1 Flex is 68% cheaper than AWS m7g.2xlarge (Graviton3) at $0.154/hr for 8 vCPU/32GB equivalent. For Linux containerised workloads, OCI A1 is the lowest-cost option globally. Ideal for Kubernetes nodes, API servers, and CI/CD agents.
💰 TCOIQ Cost Impact
8vCPU/16GB at $37/month — 68% cheaper than AWS Graviton3 equivalent. 20% cheaper than before this cut
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