Oracle Licensing on Azure

Oracle consider Microsoft Azure Platform an "Authorized Cloud Environment" (1)

Standard Edition


vCPUs
1234
5678
9101112
13141516

Sockets
1111
2222
3333
4444
Min NUPs
10101010
10101010
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Standard Edition (SE), Standard Edition One (SE1) and Standard Edition 2 (SE2) can be licensed on a per socket basis.

Each set of four, or less, Amazon vCPUs is counted as 1 socket.

Standard Edition (SE) can be licensed on a maximum of 16 vCPUs (4 sockets).

Standard Edition One (SE1) and Standard Edition 2 (SE2) can be licensed on a maximum of 8 vCPUs (2 sockets).

SE2 can also be licensed by Named User Plus (NUP) with a minimum of 10NUPs per 8 vCPUs.

Enterprise Edition

"Count two vCPUs as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if multithreading of processor cores is enabled, and one vCPU as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if multi-threading of processor cores is not enabled." (1)

Oracle Database@Azure

"Oracle Database@Azure is an Oracle database service running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), colocated in Microsoft data centers" (2)

"Oracle Database@Azure runs on infrastructure managed by Oracle's expert Cloud Infrastructure operations team. The operations team performs software patching, infrastructure updates, and other operations through a connection to OCI. While the service requires that customers have an OCI tenancy, most service activities take place in the Azure environment." (2)

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