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21 October 2017

Clone Block Storage Volumes in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Seconds

As per recent announcement, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has added the capability to clone a Block Storage Volume in seconds.  This is an important milestone at a time where cloud wars are experienced between various cloud platform vendors.

Cloning of a Block Storage volume is a critical functionality required by many of the enterprise customers.  How quickly a clone can be created is an important aspect for a Cloud Infrastructure provider.  

Does the time taken to create a clone of a block storage volume vary depending on the capacity of the block storage volume i.e., in GBs to TBs?