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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s distributed cloud is built for mission-critical enterprise workloads, with all services available in public, sovereign, and on-premises deployments at a lower price.

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OCI charges less

1 Pay less for the same compute capacity

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) consistently charges less than Google Cloud for the equivalent compute capacity. For a typical 4 vCPU AMD-based virtual machine with 16 GB of memory (n2d-standard-4), Google Cloud charges 2X as much in its cheapest US region.

Even compared with the cost when using a Google Cloud compute savings plan, which requires a commitment of at least a year, or the sustained use discount, OCI is still cheaper.
2 Scale your compute infrastructure precisely to your workload

OCI Compute offers flexible virtual machines that let you scale performance and capacity by a single core. Flexible VMs allow you to pay only for the compute you need, scaling as necessary, rather than being forced to purchase fixed sizes that might be too big for your workload.

While Google Cloud does offer flexible sizing for some of its virtual machine types, you pay a premium for that flexibility and it’s still more expensive than the equivalent offering on OCI.
3 Pay less for block storage with higher performance

OCI Block Storage provides high performance volumes that are attached to virtual machines. OCI not only lets you change the performance characteristic of block volumes during active use, but it also allows you to set up elastic performance so the volumes dynamically change performance based on actual use.

Google Cloud requires you to pick from multiple options with different capacity, performance, and cost characteristics. For the same capacity and performance, OCI Block Storage is cheaper. For a 5 TB volume with the 375,000 IOPS that a high performance database could require, Google Cloud charges 40X as much (based on Hyperdisk Extreme pricing) in its cheapest region while only providing 350,000 IOPS.
4 Pay less to move your data where you want it

We believe in letting customers move their data. OCI charges significantly less than Google Cloud for data leaving a cloud region using the public internet.

For 50 TB of data egress from a US region in one month, Google Cloud charges 10X as much as OCI.

In addition, OCI includes the first 10 TB of data egress using the public internet per month at no additional charge. Google Cloud starts charging for data egress at the first byte.
5 Pay the same for cloud services in all regions, including OCI Dedicated Region

OCI has globally consistent pricing. We designed OCI for a consistent experience, both in performance and cost, wherever you want to deploy. If you run applications and workloads in multiple regions, this makes it easier to plan and budget for cloud expenditure.

This also holds true for on-premises deployments of OCI Dedicated Region, which has the same per-service pricing as public regions. A minimum commitment is required.

In contrast, Google charges differently for the same compute instance types in different regions, which makes it more costly to run applications in multiple regions, especially outside the US. Comparing the costs of a typical 4 vCPU AMD-based virtual machine with 16 GB of memory (n2d-standard-4), Google Cloud charges 20% more in its Europe-west3 region and 60% more in its southamerica-east1 region than it does in its us-east4 region.
6 Simplify budgeting and forecasting with simpler pricing models

OCI offers simpler pricing models for its cloud services. Compute is priced by the number of processor cores and amount of memory. Block storage is priced based on the amount of data and desired performance. Network data egress fees are charged when data moves outside a region, and the first 10 TB per month is included at no additional charge.

Many services are included at no additional charge, such as secrets on OCI Vault, OCI Vulnerability Scanning Service, Oracle Cloud Guard, and distributed denial-of-service protection. This reduces your overall spend and makes it simpler to plan your budget.

Google Cloud charges for the premium and enterprise tiers of its Security Command Center. Data movement fees can be charged depending on whether the data is moving between virtual machines, to particular Google services, inside a region, or between regions. Other networking services, such as VPN, have per-hour and per-byte charges that you need to plan for. Unexpected usage can lead to surprises on your bill.

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OCI offers regions that support digital sovereignty and residency

Address digital sovereignty requirements

OCI offers a sovereign region in the EU to help EU customers meet their requirements for location, access, data residency, and operational controls while still having access to all 100-plus cloud services—including AI—that are available in OCI public regions.

OCI sovereign regions are physically, logically, and cryptographically separated from public regions, with independent access, accounts, operations, and support. They’re operated and supported by personnel who meet the regional requirements, which can include residency and clearance status.

Google only operates public regions. Sovereignty requirements can be addressed by regional policies and controls (optionally operated by partners), but the regions are still part of the shared, public infrastructure.

Google does offer Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped, which can address customers’ data residency needs, but it doesn’t offer all the services available in public Google Cloud regions and requires a three-year commitment.

Address government regulatory requirements

OCI offers government regions, currently available for the US, UK, and Australia, to help government customers and their partners meet their sovereignty and security requirements. Government regions offer all 100-plus cloud services—including AI—that are available in OCI public regions.

OCI government regions are physically, logically, and cryptographically separated from public regions, with independent access, accounts, operations, and support. They’re operated and supported by personnel that meet the regional requirements, which can include residency and clearance status.

Google only operates public regions, with governmental regulatory requirements addressed by regional and sovereign policies and controls. Google doesn’t offer government-only regions.

Google does offer Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped, which can help customers address their government regulatory needs, but it doesn’t offer all the services that are available in public Google Cloud regions and requires a three-year commitment.

Address strict national security requirements

OCI offers national security regions, currently available for the US, to help government customers with classified workloads meet their access and security requirements. National security regions offer all 100-plus cloud services—including AI—that are available in OCI public regions.

OCI national security regions are physically, logically, and cryptographically separated from public regions, with independent access, accounts, operations, and support. They’re operated and supported by personnel that meet the regional requirements, which can include residency and clearance status.

Google only operates public regions and doesn’t offer national security–only regions. Customers can address sovereignty requirements only via regional and sovereign policies and controls.

Google does offer Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped, which can help customers address their national security needs, but it doesn’t offer all the services that are available in public Google Cloud regions.

Deploy all your cloud services where you need them

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- 1. Leverage the complete breadth of OCI services in multiple deployments
  
  OCI offers its complete line of more than 100 services in 40-and-growing public regions and 10 sovereign and government regions. For customers who need even more flexibility in choosing where and how cloud services are delivered to address their regulatory, performance, and other needs, OCI’s distributed cloud delivers all the same services as its public cloud—including AI—to customer data centers and edge locations.
  
  By contrast, Google Distributed Cloud (connected or air-gapped) offers only a portion of the services available in Google Cloud’s regions, typically for container-based workloads. You have to choose whether you want the capability of the cloud in a public region or a subset of cloud services at your location.
- 2. Offer infrastructure and cloud services to your customers
  
  Oracle Alloy is a complete cloud infrastructure platform that lets partners become cloud providers and offer a full range of more than 100 cloud services to expand their businesses while keeping control of data residency. Partners control the commercial and customer experience of Oracle Alloy—including branding—and can customize it to address their specific market needs.
  
  Google Distributed Cloud is meant to be used by a single organization only. While a partner can potentially manage it, it’s still only for one organization.
- 3. Get the power of OCI Compute at your location
  
  Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer is a fully managed, rack-scale distributed cloud platform that lets you use OCI Compute anywhere. Gain the benefits of cloud automation and economics in your data center by running OCI Compute with storage and networking services on Compute Cloud@Customer.
  
  Compute Cloud@Customer offers the same flexible virtual machine shapes with the same APIs as are available in OCI public regions, with the same consumption pricing. And you can manage Compute Cloud@Customer through the same OCI Console portal.
  
  Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped does offer virtual machines but with a substantially different customer experience that requires programmatic configuration. Google Distributed Cloud connected provides support only for Kubernetes-based workloads and not general compute in the form of virtual machines.
- 4. Leverage the power of Oracle Database on optimized hardware at your location
  
  Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer brings the performance, automation, and economics of Oracle Exadata Database Service and the fully managed Oracle Autonomous Database into enterprise data centers. It’s the simplest way for you to start using our cloud database resources in your data center, helping you address strict data residency requirements. And you can manage Exadata Cloud@Customer through the same OCI Console portal.
  
  Google Distributed Cloud connected doesn’t provide a database service, and Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped provides AlloyDB Omni, PostgreSQL, or Oracle databases, although Google advises customers that they must provide their own licenses. While Oracle Database is supported on Google Cloud, it’s not certified, and Oracle Real Application Clusters aren’t supported on Google Cloud infrastructure, including Google Distributed Cloud.

OCI offers a native VMware service

Control your VMware environment with full administrative rights

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution provides a native VMware-based cloud environment, installed within a customer’s tenancy with support. With this solution, you own the ESXi root credentials, as you do with on-premises deployments.

You can connect to ESXi hosts to troubleshoot and remediate issues, just as you can on-premises. You can set affinity rules, define relationships between virtual machines and hosts to improve failover, turn encryption on or off, enable or disable vSAN compression and deduplication to expand capacity, and control patches and updates on your schedule.

Full administrative control lets you capitalize on the existing expertise of your VMware staff without requiring training or new processes.

Google Cloud VMware Engine doesn’t allow you to control patches, upgrades, or updates to your VMware environment, as this could potentially break certification and support for applications running in Google Cloud VMware environments. Additionally, Google Cloud VMware Engine doesn’t provide you with host-level access for ESXi management.

Move entire VMware estates to the cloud without changing operations or processes

Choose how you migrate your workloads to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution based on your requirements and configuration. You can create a new Oracle Cloud VMware Solution software-defined data center (SDDC) in about three hours and add a cluster to an existing SDDC in just 30 minutes.

Use VMware HCX for complex migration projects. And use vMotion between VMware vCenter Servers to migrate your smaller workloads.

You have complete control. You can use the same VMware tools you’re accustomed to, and you can keep the same VMware provisioning, storage, and lifecycle policies in the cloud as you do on-premises.

All of this contributes to a lower migration risk.

Run VMware in your choice of location

Choose from almost 50-and-growing OCI commercial, government, and sovereign regions—or an OCI Dedicated Region in your data center. Scale business-critical applications across the globe. And deliver disaster recovery for workloads on VMware where you need to.

Google Cloud VMware Engine is available in fewer than 20 regions and doesn’t run in Google Distributed Cloud.

OCI helps reduce risk when migrating applications

OCI offers bare metal servers that are automated and integrated

OCI offers some of the largest bare metal servers in the public cloud—up to 192 cores, more than 2 TB of RAM, and 1 PB of storage. These native servers are accessible with the same portal and tools and live on the same networks with direct access to other Oracle Cloud resources. Bare metal servers work well for workloads that need access to high performance, have licensing requirements, or need fast networking interconnections for cluster-based software.

Google Cloud Platform offers bare metal servers in isolated regional data centers that are connected to the corresponding Google Cloud regions by a cloud interconnect. This offering has severe limitations and doesn’t come with access to Google Cloud services, networking services, or the internet, and it requires you to work with a third-party service provider for network connectivity.

Support for OCI services is included with consumption

Support for OCI services is included with your consumption of the service. This includes mission-critical support for production workloads.

Google only provides Basic Support with consumption. Standard, Enhanced, and Premium Support tiers require a monthly fee plus a percentage of all your cloud spending. This means that your support fee has no limit and can increase, even if you never take advantage of it.

OCI offers unique SLAs

Availability SLA

OCI’s availability SLA is consistent across all deployment options, including sovereign regions, government regions, and OCI Dedicated Region.

Google Cloud doesn’t offer an availability SLA for Google Distributed Cloud.

Manageability SLA

The elasticity and configurability of infrastructure is one reason people move applications to the cloud. Your services need to be manageable at all times to deliver this benefit. We provide manageability SLAs to help you maintain your ability to manage, monitor, and modify resources.

Google Cloud doesn’t offer a manageability SLA.

Performance SLA

It's not enough for your IaaS resources to be merely accessible—they should consistently perform the way you expect them to. We’re the first cloud vendor to guarantee performance, so you can rely on our infrastructure for enterprise applications.

Google Cloud doesn’t offer a financially backed performance SLA.

Cloud infrastructure and applications everywhere

Learn more about Oracle Cloud regions

Oracle Cloud spans 50 interconnected geographic commercial and government cloud regions. Unlike other providers, each region offers a consistent set of more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, with consistent low pricing worldwide. For more complete support of customer cloud strategies, Oracle Cloud also offers a full suite of Oracle Cloud Applications and direct interconnection with Microsoft Azure.