#oracle-cloud

#oracle-cloud

The firm-fixed price contract with Oracle runs through Dec. 7, 2028. Under the Oracle contract, the Air Force and the rest of the Defense Department will have access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services across multiple classification levels. The agreement also offers data center support for Top Secret/SCI, Special Access Program, and Defense Information Syst Impact Levels 5 and 6. The agreement also offers data center support through Oracle National Security Regions operated by cleared U.S. citizens.

The American arm of the social media biz says it running normally following a significant outage caused by Winter Storm Fern. In an update on X, TikTok's US owners said the bad weather led to a power outage that caused network and storage issues at an Oracle datacenter site, which affected "tens of thousands of servers" that keep TikTok running in the US. While the storm was described as unusually large and severe, we note that Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison previously boasted to analysts in 2022 that "our cloud is very secure and extremely reliable,"

Oracle Cloud's truly 'always free' virtual machine provides developers a reliable cloud option with generous specifications, different from limited free tiers offered by other cloud providers.