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Oracle Rule

ACE vCPU to Processor

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Kind
Cloud / BYOL
Statement
ACE (policies in effect as of 12 June 2024; educational, not contractual). Amazon EC2 and RDS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform: “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 of processor cores is not enabled.” “When counting Oracle Processor license requirements in Authorized Cloud Environments, the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table is not applicable.” Example printed: Database Enterprise Edition on a single instance of four Amazon vCPUs with multi-threading enabled would require two processor licenses.
Applies when
Licensing Oracle programs in Authorized Cloud Environments (Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Microsoft Azure Platform, Google Cloud Platform).
Applies to
Oracle programs licensed by Processor in AWS EC2, AWS RDS, Microsoft Azure Platform, and Google Cloud Platform as named in ACE (OCI is not in this PDF’s ACE list).
Aliases
ACE Processor counting; 2 vCPU = 1 Processor; Core Factor not applicable in ACE
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