Welcome to 2026! We’re kicking off the year with new ways to build, tune, and run workloads efficiently on Ampere, starting with the general availability of OCI A4 instances powered by AmpereOne® M.
Here’s how to get your hands on the latest Ampere-powered cloud instances today:
OCI A4 is here — get started today
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure A4 Standard instances, powered by AmpereOne® M, are now generally available, delivering higher per-core performance, greater memory bandwidth, and excellent price-performance for cloud-native and AI inference workloads.
Get started with OCI A4 instances
See what Oracle customers Uber, Red Bull Racing, and others are saying about OCI A4 instances
Developer focus: Optimizing Java Applications for Arm64 in the Cloud
If you’re running Java in the cloud, performance tuning matters — especially on modern Arm64 platforms.
Our “Optimizing Java Applications for Arm64 in the Cloud” tutorial offers practical guidance on JVM configuration, garbage collection behavior, and performance considerations for cloud-native deployments.
Performance tuning on Ampere
Performance engineering is a core focus for us in 2026 — and we’ve been laying the groundwork to help you be successful.
Make It Faster! Finding and Fixing Performance Issues on ARM64 — in our latest episode of Ampere Developer Impact, Bhakti Hinduja discusses practical approaches to performance analysis, from application-level fixes to system-level tuning. Make It Faster! Finding and Fixing Performance Issues on ARM64
The Ampere Performance Toolkit provides a growing family of open source performance tools that you can use to characterize and optimize your applications on Ampere CPUs: The Ampere Performance Toolkit on GitHub
Stay tuned for upcoming deep-dives into how these tools have been used to solve real-world customer performance issues.
Meet the Ampere Developer Team at SCALE 23x (Pasadena, CA)
If you are at SCALE 23x (March 5-8, 2026), come say hello at the Ampere booth! You can also see Dave Neary, Ampere’s Director of Developer Relations, presenting on two topics at the event:
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Multi-architecture applications on Kubernetes and ArgoCD: Why and How: Ballroom A, March 7, 2026 at 5:00pm PST – In this presentation, you will get practical guidance on moving workloads incrementally and safely to Arm64 in mixed-architecture clusters.
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What Developers Should Know About Hardware Architecture: How hardware realities can affect application performance, and what developers can do to avoid common pitfalls.
See you next month on the next edition of the Ampere Developer Newsletter!