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Compute services

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(bright music) - Welcome back. Let's now dive into the OCI Compute service. OCI Compute allows you to create and manage compute resources, which are also known as compute instances. So what are compute instances? Simply put, servers. These are where you can deploy your applications and workloads. Compute is considered as the foundation for many other OCI services. You then simply create an instance, access it securely from your computer, and perhaps install an application. Compute instances are based on shapes that determines the type and number of CPUs, the amount of memory, and/or physical machines the size of their attached storage. There are three types of compute instances. The virtual machine, bare metal, and dedicated VM host. A virtual machine, or VM for short, is a logical server that runs on top of a physical bare metal server, which means there are multiple VMs that can be running within a single physical server. In this case, those other virtual machines could be…

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