Cost FastConnect ports, which bill per port-hour with no per-GB charge, and value the internet egress they displace.
FastConnect is priced purely as a port-hour fee: private virtual circuits carry inbound and outbound traffic with no per-GB charge at all, which is why the data transfer line here is zero. The port speed only sets how much you can push, so the useful number is cost per terabyte actually carried, which falls as utilisation rises. Because FastConnect removes the per-GB meter entirely, a circuit pays for itself once your egress volume is large enough that the avoided internet transfer charge exceeds the port and carrier fees — remember the first 10 TB of internet egress is free anyway, so the comparison starts above that. Confirm the port-hour price for your speed and region in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator.
OCI FastConnect
monthly = ports × port-hour price × hours + ports × provider fee, with no per-GB charge on private virtual circuits; capacity = port speed × 3,600 × hours ÷ 8 ÷ 1,048,576 TB.
monthly = ports × port-hour price × hours + ports × provider fee, with no per-GB charge on private virtual circuits; capacity = port speed × 3,600 × hours ÷ 8 ÷ 1,048,576 TB. FastConnect is priced purely as a port-hour fee: private virtual circuits carry inbound and outbound traffic with no per-GB charge at all, which is why the data transfer line here is zero. The port speed only sets how much you can push, so the useful number is cost per terabyte actually carried, which falls as utilisation rises.
Because FastConnect removes the per-GB meter entirely, a circuit pays for itself once your egress volume is large enough that the avoided internet transfer charge exceeds the port and carrier fees — remember the first 10 TB of internet egress is free anyway, so the comparison starts above that. Confirm the port-hour price for your speed and region in the Oracle Cloud cost estimator.
This calculator takes 8 inputs: Port speed, Price per port-hour, Number of ports, Billed hours per month, Partner or cross-connect fee per port, Traffic carried over FastConnect, Internet egress price per GB, Free internet egress allowance. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.