Oracle runs in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud under a published policy with sharp arithmetic: two vCPUs per processor license, no core factor, which roughly doubles the per core cost against on premises and quietly flatters OCI's BYOL ratios. This session reads the authorized cloud policy for what it is, a non contractual document your estate now relies on, runs the vCPU counting against real instances, walks the traps, autoscaling maxima, threading toggles, warm DR, and the ULA certification exclusion that has cost estates eight figures, and closes with the dedicated host exception that restores the core factor and the three homes comparison that keeps the estate choosing.
A taught session with three knowledge checks: the 16 vCPU workload that doubles from 4 licenses on premises to 8 in AWS, the ULA certification exclusion that strips cloud deployments from the count, and the autoscaling group licensed for its average instead of its configured maximum. It closes with one workload counted four ways, on premises, EC2, dedicated host, and OCI BYOL, the comparison that decides the home.