Oracle Cloud Platform refers to a
Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings by
Oracle Corporation
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as part of
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. These offerings are used to build, deploy, integrate and extend applications in the cloud. The offerings support a variety of
programming language
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s,
database
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s, tools and
frameworks including Oracle-specific,
open source
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and
third-party software and systems.
Deployment models
Oracle Cloud Platform offers public, private and hybrid cloud deployment models.
Architecture
Oracle Cloud Platform provides both
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and
Platform as a Service (PaaS). The infrastructure is offered through a global network of Oracle managed data centers. Oracle deploys their cloud in Regions. Inside each Region are at least three fault-independent Availability Domains. Each of these Availability Domains contains an independent data center with power, thermal and network isolation. Oracle Cloud is generally available
in North America, EMEA, APAC and Japan with announced South America and US Govt. regions coming soon.
See also
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Platform as a service
Platform as a service (PaaS) or application platform as a service (aPaaS) or platform-based service is a cloud computing service model where users provision, instantiate, run and manage a modular bundle of a computing platform and applications, w ...
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Oracle Cloud
Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation providing servers, storage, network, applications and services through a global network of Oracle Corporation managed data centers. The company allows th ...
(including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
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Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX)
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Descrip ...
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Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
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Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM)
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Oracle Cloud Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Further reading
Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a Cloud Platform for Hybrid Integration Vendor, 2019-20
References
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External links
Official website
Oracle Corporation
Cloud computing
Cloud computing providers
Cloud platforms
Cloud infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Services