Oracle Licensing for Cloud
OCI
OCI
BYOL
BYOL
2 OCPUs need 1 Oracle processor license.
You must continue to pay annual support fees.
You can only scale-up if you have the licenses to cover the new shape. This make BYOL less flexible than license-included PaaS.
AWS and Azure
AWS and Azure
For AWS EC2 and RDS and Microsft Azure...
2 vCPUs need 1 Oracle processor license if hyper-threading is enabled
1 vCPU needs 1 Oracle processor license if hyper-threading is not enabled
Core factors do NOT apply
Bibliography
Bibliography
https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/ready-solutions/industry-market/h18539-dell-emc-oracle-database-licensing-rg.pdfhttps://www.oracle.com/assets/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf (Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment)
OCIhttps://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/get-started/subscriptions-cloud/csgsg/overview-oracle-cloud-subscriptions.htmhttps://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/paas-iaas-universal-credits-3940775.pdfhttps://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/GSG/Tasks/buysubscription.htm#byolhttps://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/dc/bringyourownlicenseanduniversal.pdfhttps://www.oracle.com/cloud/bring-your-own-license/faq/
OCIhttps://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/get-started/subscriptions-cloud/csgsg/overview-oracle-cloud-subscriptions.htmhttps://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/paas-iaas-universal-credits-3940775.pdfhttps://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/GSG/Tasks/buysubscription.htm#byolhttps://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/dc/bringyourownlicenseanduniversal.pdfhttps://www.oracle.com/cloud/bring-your-own-license/faq/