Amazon RDS for Oracle introduces bare metal instances with 25% lower pricing compared to equivalent virtualized instances
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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports bare metal instances, offering several key benefits:
- 25% lower pricing compared to equivalent virtualized instances
- Supports multiple bare metal instance types including M7i, R7i, X2iedn, and others
- Enables database consolidation using Multi-tenant feature
- Potential reduction in commercial database license and support costs
- Available with Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for Oracle Enterprise Edition
The new offering provides more flexibility and cost-effectiveness for Oracle database deployments on Amazon RDS, with full visibility into underlying server hardware.
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