Are you searching for Oracle cloud licensing help? This is an high level article, that will help you understand how to license Oracle in AWS, how to license Oracle in Azure, Oracle on GCP and Oracle Cloud licensing. These vendors are the 4 biggest public cloud providers, Oracle Cloud, AWS RDS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. We review the licensing flexibility and options available for each platform to help you understand how Oracle licensing works as well as how you can leverage existing Oracle software investments.
You license per Oracle OCPU and you purchase Oracle Universal Cloud Credits that can then be spent on compute and/or platform services. Oracle is the only platform where you can use almost any Oracle software license without the need to purchase a license. For example you cannot use Enterprise Edition and partitioning in AWS and Azure without you first purchasing a license from Oracle and then bringing it to AWS or Azure. With Oracle cloud you can pay per hour or per month. Pay as you go is the option where you dont make any pre-payment amount and can spin up an cloud instance, that is then billed per consumption per month. Annual commit is an contract which you negotiate with Oracle and it has a discounted pricing structure.
Universal Cloud Credit Models (Oracle Cloud Currency)
Pay-as-you-go (Pay per hour)
– License included (all licenses) – You pay for both compute and platform service.
– Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) – You only pay for compute services
Pre-payment 12 month (discounted rates)
– License included (all licenses) – You pay for both compute and platform service.
– Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) – You only pay for compute services
Analysis:
AWS is authorized as a cloud provider and allow you to license per vCPU. 2 vCPUs as counts as Oracle processor license if multi-threading is enabled. Read how to calculate Oracle licensing on AWS here. AWS has 2 different options, either you take your own license and license it on EC2 or you choose RDS AWS which has included license for standard edition.
AWS does not allow you to use any pay per hour options unless its for Oracle Database Standard Edition and SE1. It does not provide specific usage rights, such as hosting or SaaS rights. AWS do not provide included licenses for Enterprise edition or middleware products.
AWS EC2
AWS RDS
On-demand DB instance (license included)
On-demand DB instanced BYOL
Analysis:
Azure is as AWS an authorized cloud provider and allow you to license per vCPU. 2 vCPUs count as 1 Oracle processor license if multi-threading is enabled. Read how to calculate Oracle licensing on Azure here. Azure has no included licenses options, you need to bring your own Oracle licenses.
Bring your own license (BYOL)
Microsoft Azure does not have any “license included” option and customers needs to bring their own Oracle licenses.
Oracle applications on Azure (BYOL)
Microsoft and Oracle have an partnership and allows you to deploy Oracle applications taking advantage of an integration between OCI and Azure. You do not need to purchase Universal Cloud Credits for OCI, only make sure that you have licenses for the Oracle applications (BYOL
Oracle applications you can deploy on Azure are:
Analysis:
Oracle Cloud Licensing options
Only BYOL
Analysis:
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