🌟 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Mid of July 2025: What’s New — AI, Big Data, Identity, and Beyond

 


Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues its rapid pace of innovation, with a suite of new features and enhancements released during mid of July 2025. From cutting-edge AI capabilities to smarter fleet management and expanded big data tooling, these updates empower organizations to modernize operations, improve security, and embrace AI-powered automation.

Here’s a roundup of the most exciting new releases this month:

Seamless OAuth Integration: Token Exchange Grant Type for JSON Web Token (JWT)

Service: Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Release Date: July 17, 2025

OCI IAM now supports the JWT Exchange grant type, in addition to the existing Kerberos grant type.
This means that a principal with an IAM PoP token or API key can securely access endpoints that require OAuth — without needing new credentials if already authenticated to OCI.

This simplifies integration for developers building applications that must communicate securely across systems enforcing OAuth, reducing complexity and enhancing productivity.

Smarter Automation with Fleet Application Management Enhancements

Services: Compute, Fleet Application Management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Release Date: July 17, 2025

The latest enhancements help administrators manage resources dynamically and make data-driven decisions:

  • Dynamic fleets: Automatically update fleets in real time as new resources are added, updated, or deleted.

  • Unblocking workflows: Failed validations no longer block future workflows; errors are logged and workflows continue.

  • Detailed metrics: Gain deeper insights with metrics from underlying resources.

  • Contextual recommended actions: Interface shows actionable recommendations to help meet prerequisites and fix issues.

  • View segregation: Deleted or inactive resources and targets are now automatically detected and separated for better visibility.

Big Data Service 3.1.1: More Insights & Streamlined Management

Service: Big Data | Release Date: July 16, 2025

Highlights include:

  • Automated update notifications: Subscribe to update announcements.

  • New Capacity Report API: Quickly generate capacity reports.

  • Update management from Cluster details page.

  • Improved patching: New parameter isDryRun in OS patch API.

  • Component upgrades: Spark JDBC driver, Avro, Hadoop, and Zookeeper now on the latest stable releases.

  • Enhanced security: New Ambari property to protect environment template configurations.

  • Better SSH authentication order: Now prioritizes public key over Kerberos.

  • Improved node removal: Supports force delete.

  • Hue HiveServer2 Failover support.

Bug fixes and new logging make this a significant operational upgrade for administrators.

Big Data Service ODH Patch 2.0.10.48

Service: Big Data | Release Date: July 16, 2025

Clusters on eligible versions (ODH 2.0.9.x and Big Data Service 3.0.29.1+) can apply this patch to receive cumulative updates and bug fixes from previous releases, often with zero or minimal downtime.

OCI Generative AI: More Regions & Smarter Operations

New models in Hyderabad (India South region) | Release Date: July 15, 2025

Includes:

  • Cohere Command A (chat)

  • Meta Llama 4 Maverick, Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 (70B)

  • Cohere Embed 4 and Cohere Embed Multilingual Image 3

Model Aliases for On-Demand Serving | Release Date: July 10, 2025

Easily point your applications to cohere.command-latest instead of a fixed version, ensuring seamless upgrades without manual code updates.

Available in:

  • Brazil East

  • Germany Central

  • Japan Central

  • UK South

  • US Midwest

Deprecation & Retirement Notifications | Release Date: July 10, 2025

Stay informed about model lifecycle changes via:

  • Console warnings

  • API response headers (model-retirement-info)

  • Notifications (14 & 7 days before on-demand retirement; 90, 60, 30 & 7 days for dedicated mode)

File Storage with Lustre: New Regions

Service: File Storage with Lustre | Release Date: July 14, 2025

Now available in:

  • Australia East (Sydney)

  • UK West (Newport)

Wrapping Up

These July 2025 updates reinforce Oracle Cloud’s vision to deliver smarter automation, secure integrations, and cutting-edge AI services across global regions.

From AI-powered insights to big data operational improvements and dynamic fleet automation, OCI continues to help organizations modernize with speed and confidence.

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