Whenever you create compute instances on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, it's hard to correspond the shapes that you are choosing to create (eg: VM.Standard2.X) with the prices that the OCI Cost Estimator Website or even the contract that you sign with Oracle when buying credits will show to you (eg: Compute - Virtual Machine Standard - X7 - B88514).
When you choose to create a compute instance on OCI console, you will actually pay not only for the OCPU you are allocating, but also for the storage (Block Volume and Object Storage for backups) and Networking (Outbound Data Transfer). However, when talking about the OCPU, the configuration names that are given are not trivial to correlate with the shape you use.
To help with that, I've created the table below that will help to map it:
| Configuration | Shape Prefix | Decommission Date |
|---|---|---|
| Compute - Virtual Machine Standard - X7 (B88514) | VM.Standard2 | |
| Compute - BM Standard - B1 (B91119) | BM.Standard.B1 | |
| Compute - HPC - X7 (B90398) | BM.HPC2 | |
| Compute - Standard - E2 (B90425) | VM.Standard.E2 | |
| Compute - VM Standard - B1 (B91120) | (No Idea) | |
| Compute - Virtual Machine Dense I/O - X7 (B88516) | VM.DenseIO2 | |
| Compute - Virtual Machine GPU Standard - X7 (B88518) | VM.GPU | |
| Virtual Machine Dense I/O - X5 (B88316) | VM.DenseIO1 | November 9th, 2018 |
| Virtual Machine Standard - X5 (B88317) | VM.Standard1 | November 9th, 2018 |
| Compute - Bare Metal Dense I/O - X7 (B88515) | BM.DenseIO2 | |
| Bare Metal Dense I/O - X5 (B88313) | BM.DenseIO1 | November 9th, 2018 |
| Bare Metal GPU Standard - High Performance - X7 (B89734) | BM.GPU3 | |
| Bare Metal GPU Standard - X7 (B88517) | BM.GPU2 | |
| Bare Metal Standard - X5 (B88315) | BM.Standard1 | November 9th, 2018 |
| Compute - Bare Metal Standard - X7 (B88513) | BM.Standard2 |
Please let me know if you find any changes.
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hi i am vijay big follower of your blog
Hi,
Hope you are doing well. We are loot for such details for our client.. for this we create tag namespace with billing enable option and applied the tag to appropriate OCI resources. Now we are getting billing details which we get as monthly report now. I am interested to know above details and how this can help for this. I request please brief me little.
Thanks.
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Hi Raj,
Take a look in this article: https://www.dbarj.com.br/en/2019/06/creating-read-only-account-for-rest-billing-access-on-oracle-cloud/
It may give you some insights.