Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders Ampere’s Altra gets the gig at a cent-per CPU hour, with managed K8s for starters, managed MySQL coming soon Share Copy Oracle has made good on its promise to fire up an Arm-powered cloud by revealing it will offer Ampere's 80-core Altra processors for one US cent per hour per core. Big Red will offer a single instance type – the A1 – but will offer it as virtual machines scaling up to 80 CPU cores or bare-metal instances running 160 cores. The silicon can be cranked to 3GHz. RAM will cost 0.0015 per GB per hour. VMs can use between one and 64GB of RAM, while a bare metal box can scale to 1TB of memory.