Oracle Compute Shape is coming with predefined or customize the number of OCPUs that are allocated to an instance. The amount of memory, network bandwidth, and number of VNICs scale proportionately with the number of OCPUs.

The primary use case for using Web Application Firewall (WAF) in OCI is to filter malicious web traffic and protect internet-facing and internal applications from attacks. WAF is a cloud-based, PCI-compliant, global web application firewall service that monitors and controls access to web applications based on predefined rules and threat intelligence. WAF can block common web application attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, remote file inclusion, etc., as well as bot traffic, geographic restrictions, rate limiting, etc. WAF can protect any internet-facing endpoint or internal application by attaching WAF policies to enforcement points such as load balancers or web application domain names10

Low performance is not a performance level available in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service. The Block Volume service offers four performance levels for block volumes: higher performance, balanced, lower cost, and ultra high performance. Each performance level has different characteristics in terms of throughput, IOPS, latency, and cost.