With OCI's pricing of $0.0085 USD per Gigabyte for Outbound Data Transfer in North America, how much will they spend per month for 7 Petabytes of Outbound Data Transfer?

Oracle’s price list states that outbound data transfer from North America is billed at US $0.0085 per GB. 1 petabyte (PB) = 1,000 terabytes = 1,000,000 gigabytes (decimal units are explicitly used in OCI pricing documents). 7 PB = 7 × 1,000,000 GB = 7,000,000 GB. Cost = 7,000,000 GB × $0.0085 / GB = $59,500. Therefore, the monthly spend is $59,500.

B. $59,415.00 Uses binary (1 PB ≈ 1,048,576 GB); OCI pricing uses decimal GB, so result is off by $85.
C. $0.00 Only inbound data transfer is free; outbound is chargeable at the stated rate.
D. $150,000.00 Assumes a much higher per-GB rate (~$0.0214); exceeds OCI’s published price.

1. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Price List, rev. 6.6 (Mar 2023), p. 4 “Data Transfer – Outbound (per GB) North America $0.0085”.

2. Oracle Cloud Networking Pricing Page, section “Outbound Data Transfer – North America”, Oracle.com (accessed 25 Nov 2025).

3. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation, “Understanding Metering and Pricing for Object Storage & Data Transfer”, §“Decimal (1000-based) units used for GB and TB measurements”, Oracle Docs Library.