Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is distinguished in the cloud market by its offering of Bare Metal servers. This core compute component provides customers with dedicated, single-tenant physical servers, ensuring maximum performance, security, and control. Unlike virtualized environments, bare metal instances eliminate the "noisy neighbor" effect and provide direct hardware access. This capability is crucial for high-performance computing (HPC), I/O-intensive databases, and other enterprise workloads that require consistent performance and strong isolation, making it a key differentiator for OCI's computing platform.

A. Virtual Desktop Interfaces (VDIs) are a higher-level service offered by many cloud providers, not a core, differentiating compute component of OCI's fundamental infrastructure.

B. This statement is factually incorrect. OCI is architected for massive scalability to meet the demands of large enterprise workloads, which is a key feature, not a limitation.

C. While OCI provides single-tenant options, Bare Metal compute is the specific core component that differentiates its capabilities, not a generalized concept of "single-tenant storage."

1. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

"Overview of Compute": "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Compute service offers both bare metal and virtual machine instances. A bare metal instance gives you dedicated physical server access for highest performance and strong isolation." This document establishes Bare Metal as a primary and distinct compute offering.

2. Oracle White Paper

"Oracle Cloud Infrastructure—A Technical Overview" (Doc ID: 11182020-WP): Section "Compute Services

" Page 8

discusses the range of compute shapes

stating

"OCI offers bare-metal compute instances

which are single-tenant servers with no hypervisor

giving customers full control of the server." This highlights the single-tenancy and control that differentiates the service.

3. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blog

"Bare metal

virtual machines

or containers? Which compute service is right for you?": This article explicitly positions Bare Metal instances for "workloads that are performance-intensive" and require "access to specific hardware

" confirming its role as a specialized and differentiating component for high-demand use cases.