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Overview and Introduction of Oracle Cloud – Why would I go there?

Oracle Cloud had been around for a while now. Oracle’s cloud infrastructure was launched in 2016 under the name Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services. It was rebranded Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in 2018 and is now touted as a “Generation 2 Cloud”. This presentation will explore all the various offerings of Oracle Cloud, their advantages, and disadvantages. I’ll discuss considerations that you should think about when moving to the cloud. Then, I’ll show how you can use Oracle Cloud Free Tier to access several, “Always Free” services for development, small business initiatives or just experimenting with new versions of Oracle DBs.

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