What purpose does the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Service Limits feature serve?

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Service Limits feature is designed primarily to ensure fair usage among tenants and manage resource availability. In a cloud environment, multiple customers share the same physical resources. Therefore, it is crucial to implement mechanisms that prevent any single tenant from monopolizing resources, which could adversely affect service availability and performance for other users.

Service limits help organizations by setting predefined caps on various resources, such as compute instances, storage capacities, and network bandwidth, among others. These limits are put in place to maintain a balance in resource consumption and to allocate the available resources in a way that meets the needs of all tenants effectively. This encourages responsible usage of the cloud resources while ensuring that all users have access to the resources they need to operate efficiently.

With this feature, organizations can plan their resource usage more effectively, avoiding unexpected overages and ensuring compliance with operational needs and budgets.