Oracle Approved Cloud Vendors in 2024

Oracle Approved Cloud Vendors  are where Licensing Oracle Technology Products  is allowed.

Oracle’s  Authorized Cloud Environments. is the official or formal name for the  list of approved cloud vendors:

• Amazon EC2 and RDS
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud Platform

How to license Oracle Technology Products in these Approved cloud vendor environments?

• In all the above cases, count two vCPUs as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if
  hyper-threading is enabled, and one vCPU as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if
  hyper-threading is not enabled.
• The Oracle Processor Core Factor Table is not applicable.

The details can be seen from Oracle’s official page here

Example for licensing Oracle Database Enterprise Edition by Processor:

• Licensing Oracle Database Enterprise Edition on a single instance of four Amazon vCPUs, where multithreading of processor cores is enabled, would require two processor licenses.
• Calculation: Two Amazon vCPUs are considered equivalent to an Oracle Processor license.

Named User Plus Licensing in these clouds:

• Standard rules of licensing Named User Plus will apply.
• Example: for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, you will need 25NUP as the minimum per processor license.

Licensing Standard Edition in the Oracle approved cloud vendors:

• This policy is for all products having Standard Edition One, Standard Edition 2, or Standard
  Edition in its name
• Pricing is based on the size of the instance
• Instances with 4 or less vCPUs are counted as 1 socket.
• One socket equals 1 Oracle Processor license
• For instances with more than 4vCPUs, each group of four vCPUs is counted as an additional socket.
• Example:
  • Instance running on Azure with 6 vCPUs
  • First 4 vCPUs will count as 1 socket
  • The additional 2vCPUs will count as 1 socket license
  • Totally two socket equating to 2 Processor licenses

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