Authorized Cloud Environments
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- Kind
- Cloud policy
- Term
- Policy as of 12 June 2024; subject to change without notice (educational).
- Aliases
- ACE
- Definition
- Educational policy overlay (not contractual). “This policy applies to cloud computing environments from the following vendors: Amazon Web Services – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Microsoft Azure Platform and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (collectively, the ‘Authorized Cloud Environments’).” The document “is for educational purposes only and provides guidelines regarding Oracle's policies in effect as of June 12, 2024. It may not be incorporated into any contract and does not constitute a contract or a commitment to any specific terms. Policies and this document are subject to change without notice.”
- Commercial rules
- Processor counting in ACE: count two vCPUs as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if multi-threading of processor cores is enabled, and one vCPU as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if multi-threading is not enabled (AWS EC2/RDS, Azure, GCP). “When counting Oracle Processor license requirements in Authorized Cloud Environments, the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table is not applicable.” Standard Edition family: instances with four or fewer vCPUs = 1 socket = one Oracle processor license; more than four vCPUs: every four vCPUs (rounded up to the nearest multiple of four) = one socket. Database Standard Edition only on instances up to 16 vCPUs; Standard Edition One and Standard Edition 2 only on instances up to eight vCPUs. SE2 by Named User Plus: “the minimums are 10 NUP licenses per 8 Amazon vCPUs or 8 Azure vCPUs or 8 GCP vCPUs.” “Standard Named User Plus licensing applies, including counting the minimums where applicable.” ULA licenses may be used in ACE but may not be included in end-of-term certification (ACE names ULAs only).
- Applies to
- Oracle programs licensed in AWS EC2, AWS RDS, Microsoft Azure Platform, and Google Cloud Platform as named in the ACE PDF. OCI is not in this PDF’s ACE list.
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