BYOL to PaaS
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- Kind
- Cloud policy
- Term
- Dual-use / transition up to 100 days from BYOL Cloud Service activation (UCM §G); thereafter BYOL-applied licenses may not also be used on premise. On-prem support contract continues (FAQ).
- Aliases
- Bring Your Own License; Oracle BYOL; BYOL (Universal Credits / UCM)
- Definition
- FAQ (educational): “BYOL stands for “bring your own license.” Oracle BYOL allows our customers to apply licenses they currently own for on-premises software for equivalent, highly automated Oracle PaaS.” UCM §G (contractual for those Cloud Services, v082726 / 27 August 2026): “You may activate the BYOL version of a Cloud Service if available (not all Cloud Services have BYOL versions) and You will be charged the BYOL rate for the activated Cloud Service provided that You have sufficient Oracle supported on premise licenses as required and specified in the Service Description for the Cloud Service.” Mapping rules “are defined in the Oracle PaaS and IaaS Universal Credits Service Description document.”
- Commercial rules
- UCM §G: Eligible license types: Full Use, Limited Use, Application Specific Full Use, and Proprietary Hosting (subject to an ISV Amendment). Term licenses eligible while the term is in effect. Embedded Software Licenses are not eligible. License type retains its type when applied (Full Use stays Full Use). “Licenses applied towards Your requirements for the BYOL version of a Cloud Service are deemed deployed and in use (i.e., You may not also use these licenses on premise) and may be verified in an audit.” Transition: “up to 100 days from the activation of Your BYOL Cloud Service”; thereafter BYOL-applied licenses may not also be used on premise. FAQ: support fees for on-prem licenses used for BYOL to PaaS continue. FAQ: “Can Oracle Unlimited License Agreement customers certify licenses in the BYOLed program to Oracle Cloud? No.” FAQ high-level mapping (not a new on-prem meter): “one Oracle Processor License maps to two OCPUs.” Service-line examples Oracle prints (do not globalize): several PaaS BYOL listings “For each supported Processor license You may activate up to 2 OCPUs”; “For every 25 supported Named User Plus licenses You may activate 1 OCPU.”
- Applies to
- BYOL versions of Oracle PaaS/IaaS Cloud Services named in UCM (not all Cloud Services have BYOL versions). On-prem Processor and Named User Plus entitlements mapped per the service description. OCPU/ECPU are OCI service meters, not on-prem UoM.
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