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The OCI Cost Optimization Field Guide.

Everything from our Oracle cloud cluster in one working document: the flexible shape rightsizing tables, the Universal Credits sizing model, and the Autonomous Database scaling checklist that caps the biggest OCI surprise.

OCI rewards teams that understand its model. This field guide hands you that understanding in a form you can act on the same day, the same material we use when we run an Oracle cloud cost engagement.

It is independent and vendor neutral. We do not resell Oracle and we are not paid by Oracle, so every recommendation in the guide exists to lower your bill. It distills the full guide to Oracle cloud cost optimization and the OCI cost optimization checklist into tables, models, and step-by-step procedures.

What is inside

  1. Flexible shape rightsizing tables for E-series and Ampere A1
  2. The Universal Credits and Annual Flex sizing model
  3. The Autonomous Database ECPU and auto-scaling cap checklist
  4. License Included versus BYOL decision worksheet
  5. The Oracle Support Rewards harvest, at $0.25 to $0.33 per dollar
  6. Block and boot volume cleanup and storage tiering steps
  7. The OCI Budgets and cost alerts setup walkthrough
  8. A compartment and tagging model for clean cost allocation

Who it is for

Engineering and platform teams running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and the finance partners who need the bill to be predictable. Whether you are about to negotiate an Oracle cloud commitment or just want to rightsize your flexible shapes first, the guide gives you the numbers and the order.

If you would rather we do it with you, that is our OCI cost optimization service, on fixed fee, performance fee, or managed. On the performance model, if we save you nothing, you pay nothing.