Aruba Cloud vs Oracle Cloud (GPU)
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Aruba Cloud and Oracle Cloud (GPU).
Quick Verdict
3.6/5
Aruba Cloud
0 reviews
3.8/5
Oracle Cloud (GPU)
0 reviews
Oracle Cloud (GPU) is rated higher (3.8 vs 3.6). Offers Cloud VPS from €2.49 + VAT/month (entry VPS O1I1); OpenStack Cloud Server PRO billed hourly/monthly/yearly Oracle Cloud Infrastructure includes an always-free A1 Arm allocation (2 OCPUs + 12 GB RAM since July 2026, halved from 4 OCPUs + 24 GB) and GPU shapes from ~$2/GPU-hour (A10 VM) to $10/GPU-hour (H100/H200) and $14-15 (B200/B300).
Aruba Cloud Italian cloud with €2.49/month entry VPS | Oracle Cloud (GPU) Free A1 Arm instances with optional GPU | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.6 (0 reviews) | 3.8 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | freemium |
| Starting price | From $2.49/mo | Free tier available✓ |
| Best for | European businesses needing GDPR-compliant EU data residency from a large incumbent that owns its own Tier IV-equivalent data centers, at budget VPS pricing | Enterprise and serious training/inference workloads that want bare-metal NVIDIA or AMD GPU clusters at hyperscaler-reliable terms, especially MI300X and A100 value seekers and existing Oracle/database customers |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 1 vCPU | — |
| RAM | 1 GB | — |
| Storage | 20 GB | — |
| Bandwidth | 2 TB/mo | — |
| SLA uptime | 99.95%✓ | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 8 | 50✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €2.49 | — |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €2.49 | — |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ✓ | |
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Arezzo (IT1/IT2), Ponte San Pietro/Bergamo (IT3), Rome (IT4), Prague (CZ1), Ktis (CZ2) owned; Paris, Frankfurt, London, Warsaw partner sites | 50+ regions across 28 countries (NA, SA, EU, MEA, APAC) |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6backups includedeu datacentergdpr compliant | free tiergpu availableeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi accessarm processors |
| Visit Aruba Cloud → | Visit Oracle Cloud (GPU) → | |
Aruba Cloud
Pros
- + Owns its data center campuses — Rating 4 facilities in Italy plus Czech sites, with GDPR data residency
- + Entry VPS at €2.49 + VAT/month with published specs: 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 2 TB traffic
- + Hourly, monthly or yearly billing on the OpenStack Cloud Server PRO line
- + S3-compatible Cloud Object Storage and a full REST/SOAP API suite
Cons
- - SLA tops out at 99.95% (PRO) and 99.90% (Cloud VPS) — below the 99.99% market standard
- - All headline prices exclude VAT; promo pricing is mixed into tables with struck-through list prices
- - Backups are a paid add-on — free snapshots reportedly expire after two days
- - Control panel and English documentation lag the European market leaders
Oracle Cloud (GPU)
Pros
- + Broadest accelerator lineup of any hyperscaler: NVIDIA Blackwell/Hopper/Ampere plus AMD MI300X/MI355X, VMs and bare metal
- + Below-AWS/Azure on-demand GPU list pricing (H100 $10/GPU-hr, A100 80GB $4, MI300X $6) with published, checkable rates
- + Supercluster-class networking (up to 3,200 Gb/sec RDMA) and large local NVMe per node for training checkpoints
- + Credit-backed compute SLA and a full cloud stack (storage, K8s, databases, S3-compatible object) in 50+ regions
Cons
- - GPU quota and capacity processes can require sales engagement; 8-GPU node minimums on the best shapes
- - OCI console/IAM complexity and thinner community documentation than AWS/GCP
- - The 'up to 220% cheaper' claim is a dated vendor comparison; neoclouds undercut on some shapes
- - Egress, storage, image licensing and commitment terms add to headline GPU rates; free tier is CPU-only
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