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OCI architecture

OCI architecture

(light music) - Welcome to this lesson on OCI Architecture. In this lesson, we will cover the core constructs of OCI's physical architecture, starting with regions. Region is a localized geographic area comprising of one or more availability domains. Availability domains are one or more fault tolerant data centers located within a region but connected to each other by a low latency, high bandwidth network. Fault domains is a grouping of hardware and infrastructure within an availability domain to provide anti-affinity. So think about these as logical datacenters. We looked at it in the previous lesson, today OCI has a massive geographic footprint around the world with multiple regions across the world. And we also have a multi-cloud partnership with Microsoft Azure and we have a differentiated hybrid cloud offering called Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. But before we dive into the physical architecture, let us look at how do…

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