Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Service Limits

This topic describes the service limits for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the process for requesting a service limit increase.

About Service Limits and Usage

When you sign up for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, a set of service limits is configured for your tenancy. The service limit is the quota or allowance set on a resource. For example, your tenancy is allowed a maximum number of compute instances per availability domain. These limits are generally established with your Oracle sales representative when you purchase Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. If you did not establish limits with your Oracle sales representative, or, if you signed up through the Oracle Store, default or trial limits are set for your tenancy. These limits may be increased for you automatically based on your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resource usage and account standing. You can also request a service limit increase.

Compartment Quotas

Compartment quotas are similar to service limits; the biggest difference is that service limits are set by Oracle, and compartment quotas are set by administrators, using policies that allow them to allocate resources with a high level of flexibility. Compartment quotas are set using policy statements written in a simple declarative language that is similar to the IAM policy language.

To learn more, see Compartment Quotas.

Viewing Your Service Limits, Quotas, and Usage

You can view your tenancy's limits, quotas, and usage in the Console. Be aware that:

  • The Console might not yet display limits and usage information for all of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services or resources.
  • The usage level listed for a given resource type could be greater than the limit if the limit was reduced after the resources were created.
  • If all the resource limits are listed as 0, this means your account has been suspended. For help, contact Oracle Support.

If you don't yet have a tenancy or a user login for the Console, or if you don't find a particular limit listed in the Console, see Limits by Service for the default tenancy limits.

Service Limits API Policy

For the resource availability API (usage) the policy can be at the tenant or compartment level: 


Allow group LimitsAndUsageViewers to read resource-availability in tenancy
Allow group LimitsAndUsageViewers to read resource-availability in compartment A

For limit definitions, services, and values APIs (only at the tenant level):


Allow group LimitsAndUsageViewers to inspect resource-availability in tenancy

For limit values APIs (does not include definitions or services), the following policy is also supported:


Allow group LimitsAndUsageViewers to inspect limits in tenancy
To view your tenancy's limits and usage (by region)
Note

Required Permission

If you're in the Administrators group, you have permission to view the limits and usage. If you're not, here's an example IAM policy that grants the required permission to users in a group called LimitsAndUsageViewers:


Allow group LimitsAndUsageViewers to inspect resource-availability in tenancy

READ resource-availability is required to obtain the resource availability. There are four APIs:

  • listServices
  • listLimitDefinitions
  • listLimitValues
  • getResourceAvailability

limitServices, listLimitDefinitions, and listLimitValues all require INSPECT at the tenancy level, while getResourceAvailability requires READ at the compartment level to be able to read the data.

Note

The Console may not display limits and usage information yet for all Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services or resources.

  1. Open the Console. Open the navigation menu and click Governance & Administration. Under Governance, click Limits, Quotas and Usage..

Your resource limits, quotas, and usage for the specific region are displayed, broken out by service. You can use the filter drop-down lists at the top of the list to filter by service, scope, resource, and compartment.

When You Reach a Service Limit

When you reach the service limit for a resource, you receive an error when you try to create a new resource of that type. You are then prompted to submit a request to increase your limit. You cannot create a new resource until you are granted an increase to your service limit or you terminate an existing resource. Note that service limits apply to a specific scope, and when the service limit in one scope is reached you may still have resources available to you in other scopes (for example, other availability domains).

Requesting a Service Limit Increase

Note

Government Cloud customers can't use the procedure here to request a service limit increase. Instead, see Requesting a Service Limit Increase for Government Cloud Tenancies.

You can submit a request to increase your service limits from within the Console. If you try to create a resource for which limit has been met, you'll be prompted to submit a limit increase request. Additionally, you can launch the request from the service limits page or at any time by clicking the link under the Help menu (Help menu icon).

This procedure applies to requests for service limit increases. For details about the subscribed region limit and how to request an increase to that limit, see Subscribed Region Limits.

To request a service limit increase

  1. Open the Help menu (Help menu icon). Under Request Help, click Request Limit Increase.

  2. Enter the following:

    • Primary Contact Details: Enter the name and email address of the person making the request. Enter one email address only. A confirmation will be sent to this address.
    • Service Category: Select the appropriate category for your request.

    • Resource: Select the appropriate resource.

      Depending on your selection for resource, additional fields might display for more specific information.

    • Reason for Request: Enter a reason for your request. If your request is urgent or unusual, please provide details here.
  3. Click Create Support Request.

After you submit the request, it is processed. A response can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few days. If your request is granted, a confirmation email is sent to the address provided in the primary contact details.

If we need additional information about your request, a follow-up email is sent to the address provided in the primary contact details.

Limits by Service

Click a service name to view the default limits. Note the scope that each limit applies to (for example, per availability domain, per region, per tenant, etc.).

Note

Some services have additional limits. For more information, see the overview of each service.

Dynamic Limits

Some of these limits can appear as Dynamic in the Console's Limits, Quotas, and Usage page. Pay-as-You-Go or Promo customers have access to a dynamic amount of the particular resource, based on tenancy resource consumption and growth. Access to this resource increases over time.

Analytics Cloud Limits

For Analytics Cloud limits, see Service Limits.

API Gateway Limits

Limits apply to each tenancy.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

API gateways per region 10 5
API resources per region 100 100
API description length 1 MB 1 MB
Certificates per region 10 10
Application Performance Monitoring Limits

Application Performance Monitoring limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Maximum number of Always Free APM domains 1 1
Maximum number of paid APM domains

3

Contact us to request an exception to increase the paid APM domain limit.

3

Contact us to request an exception to increase the paid APM domain limit.
Bastion Limits

Bastion limits are regional.

Resources Monthly or Annual Universal Credits Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
Bastions Maximum of 5 bastions per region Maximum of 5 bastions per region
Sessions Maximum of 20 sessions per bastion Maximum of 20 sessions per bastion
Big Data Limits

For Big Data limits, see Service Limits.

Block Volume Limits

Volume limits apply to each availability domain. Volume backup limits apply to each region.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Block Volumes aggregated size 100 TB 30 TB
Backups 100,000 100,000
Blockchain Platform Limits

For Blockchain Platform limits, see Service Limits.

Cloud Guard Limits

Cloud Guard limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Detector Recipe Count 25 Contact Us
Responder Recipe Count 15 Contact Us
Target Count 50 Contact Us
Managed List Count 20 Contact Us
Cloud Shell Limits

Limits apply to each region.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Active User Count 75 50
Usage Hours Count 400 240
Compute Limits
Compute Instances

Limits apply to each availability domain.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard2 and BM.Standard2 series

15,000

 6
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro series 2 2
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard.E2 and BM.Standard.E2 series 15,000 6
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard.E3 and BM.Standard.E3 series

15,000 - commercial realm and US Government Cloud

3,460 - United Kingdom Government Cloud

6 - commercial realm and US Government Cloud

24 - United Kingdom Government Cloud
Total memory for shapes in the VM.Standard.E3 and BM.Standard.E3 series

15,000 GB - commercial realm and US Government Cloud

55,360 GB - United Kingdom Government Cloud

96 GB - commercial realm and US Government Cloud

384 GB - United Kingdom Government Cloud
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard.E4 and BM.Standard.E4 series

15,000 - commercial realm (Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Chile (Santiago), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India South (Hyderabad), India West (Mumbai), Japan Central (Osaka), Japan East (Tokyo), Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), Switzerland North (Zurich), UAE East (Dubai), UK South (London), US East (Ashburn), UK West (Newport), US West (Phoenix), US West (San Jose))

350 - US Government Cloud (US DoD West (Phoenix), US Gov East (Ashburn))

6 - commercial realm (Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Chile (Santiago), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India South (Hyderabad), India West (Mumbai), Japan Central (Osaka), Japan East (Tokyo), Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), Switzerland North (Zurich), UAE East (Dubai), UK South (London), US East (Ashburn), UK West (Newport), US West (Phoenix), US West (San Jose))

6 - US Government Cloud (US DoD West (Phoenix), US Gov East (Ashburn))
Total memory for shapes in the VM.Standard.E4 and BM.Standard.E4 series

240,000 GB - commercial realm (Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Chile (Santiago), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India South (Hyderabad), India West (Mumbai), Japan Central (Osaka), Japan East (Tokyo), Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), Switzerland North (Zurich), UAE East (Dubai), UK South (London), US East (Ashburn), UK West (Newport), US West (Phoenix), US West (San Jose))

5,600 GB US Government Cloud (US DoD West (Phoenix), US Gov East (Ashburn))

96 GB - commercial realm (Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Chile (Santiago), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India South (Hyderabad), India West (Mumbai), Japan Central (Osaka), Japan East (Tokyo), Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), Switzerland North (Zurich), UAE East (Dubai), UK South (London), US East (Ashburn), UK West (Newport), US West (Phoenix), US West (San Jose))

96 GB US Government Cloud (US DoD West (Phoenix), US Gov East (Ashburn))
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard.A1 and BM.Standard.A1 series 15,000 - commercial realm 16 - commercial realm
Total memory for shapes in the VM.Standard.A1 and BM.Standard.A1 series 90,000 GB - commercial realm 96 GB - commercial realm
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.DenseIO2 and BM.DenseIO2 series

2,000

 Contact Us
Total GPUs for shapes in the VM.GPU3 and BM.GPU3 series Contact Us Contact Us
Total GPUs for shapes in the BM.GPU4 series Contact Us Contact Us
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the BM.HPC2 series 1,500 (IAD1, LHR2) Contact Us
Total OCPUs (cores) for DVH.Standard2.52 instances 52 52
Total OCPUs (cores) for DVH.Standard2.52 shapes 15,000 Contact Us
Total OCPUs (cores) for DVH.Standard.E2.64 instances Contact Us Contact Us
Total OCPUs (cores) for DVH.Standard.E3.128 instances 128 128
Total OCPUs (cores) for DVH.DenseIO2.52 instances 52 52
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Optimized3 and BM.Optimized3 series

1,500 (US East (Ashburn), US West (Phoenix))

500 (Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India West (Mumbai), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), UK South (London))

6 (Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India West (Mumbai), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), UK South (London), US East (Ashburn), US West (Phoenix))
Total memory for shapes in the VM.Optimized3 and BM.Optimized3 series

21,000 GB (US East (Ashburn), US West (Phoenix))

7,000 GB (Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India West (Mumbai), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), UK South (London))

84 GB (Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India West (Mumbai), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), UK South (London), US East (Ashburn), US West (Phoenix))
Note

Compute limits used to apply at the individual shape level. These limits have been deprecated. Although you can continue to use the deprecated shape-based limits, the limits are converted to the equivalent OCPU-based (core-based) values.
Compute Capacity Reservations

Limits apply to each availability domain. Capacity reservations are not available with Free Tier accounts. For most pay-as-you-go customers, the service limit is implemented by default. If you're a pay-as-you-go customer and you're unable to make capacity reservations, Contact Us.

Capacity reservation limits have the following known issues:

To request a limit increase for capacity reservations, in the Request Service Limit Updates form, for Resource, select Reservable Cores or Reservable Memory for the relevant shape.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard2 and BM.Standard2 series

15,000 - commercial realm

512 - US Government Cloud and United Kingdom Government Cloud

 Contact Us
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard.E2 and BM.Standard.E2 series 15,000 Contact Us
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard.E3 and BM.Standard.E3 series

15,000 - commercial realm

350 - US Government Cloud

3,460 - United Kingdom Government Cloud

 Contact Us
Total memory for shapes in the VM.Standard.E3 and BM.Standard.E3 series

150,000 GB - commercial realm

5,600 GB - US Government Cloud

55,360 GB - United Kingdom Government Cloud

 Contact Us
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard.E4 and BM.Standard.E4 series

15,000 - commercial realm (Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Chile (Santiago), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India South (Hyderabad), India West (Mumbai), Japan Central (Osaka), Japan East (Tokyo), Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), Switzerland North (Zurich), UAE East (Dubai), UK South (London), US East (Ashburn), UK West (Newport), US West (Phoenix), US West (San Jose))

350 US Government Cloud (US DoD West (Phoenix), US Gov East (Ashburn))

 Contact Us
Total memory for shapes in the VM.Standard.E4 and BM.Standard.E4 series

240,000 GB - commercial realm (Australia East (Sydney), Australia Southeast (Melbourne), Brazil East (Sao Paulo), Canada Southeast (Montreal), Canada Southeast (Toronto), Chile (Santiago), Germany Central (Frankfurt), India South (Hyderabad), India West (Mumbai), Japan Central (Osaka), Japan East (Tokyo), Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam), South Korea Central (Seoul), South Korea North (Chuncheon), Switzerland North (Zurich), UAE East (Dubai), UK South (London), US East (Ashburn), UK West (Newport), US West (Phoenix), US West (San Jose))

5,600 GB US Government Cloud (US DoD West (Phoenix), US Gov East (Ashburn))

 Contact Us
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.Standard.A1 and BM.Standard.A1 series 15,000 - commercial realm Contact Us
Total memory for shapes in the VM.Standard.A1 and BM.Standard.A1 series 90,000 GB - commercial realm Contact Us
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the VM.DenseIO2 and BM.DenseIO2 series

2,000 - commercial realm

532 - US Government Cloud and United Kingdom Government Cloud

 Contact Us
Total GPUs for shapes in the VM.GPU3 and BM.GPU3 series Contact Us Contact Us
Total GPUs for shapes in the BM.GPU4 series Contact Us Contact Us
Total OCPUs (cores) for shapes in the BM.HPC2 series 1,500 Contact Us
Connection Tracking

Connection tracking limits apply to stateful security rules.

Bare Metal Shapes

Shape

Connection tracking limits

(Approximate total concurrent connections per physical VNIC)
BM.Standard.2.52 2 million
BM.Standard.E3.128 5 million
BM.Standard.E4.128 5 million
BM.Standard.A1.160 5 million
BM.DenseIO2.52 2 million
BM.GPU3.8 (GPU: 8xV100) 2 million
BM.GPU4.8 (GPU 8xA100) 5 million
BM.HPC2.36 2 million
BM.Optimized3.36 (Intel) 5 million
VM Shapes

Shape

Connection tracking limits

(Approximate total concurrent connections)
VM.Standard2.1 40,000
VM.Standard2.2 80,000
VM.Standard2.4 164,000
VM.Standard2.8 328,000
VM.Standard2.16 656,000
VM.Standard2.24 984,000
VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro 15,000
VM.Standard.E3.Flex

15,000 per OCPU

1 OCPU = 15,000 concurrent connections

64 OCPUs = 960,000 concurrent connections
VM.Standard.E4.Flex

15,000 per OCPU

1 OCPU = 15,000 concurrent connections

64 OCPUs = 960,000 concurrent connections
VM.Standard.A1.Flex

12,000 per OCPU

1 OCPU = 12,000 concurrent connections

80 OCPUs = 984,000 concurrent connections
VM.DenseIO2.8 328,000
VM.DenseIO2.16 656,000
VM.DenseIO2.24 984,000
VM.GPU3.1 (GPU: 1xV100) 164,000
VM.GPU3.2 (GPU: 2xV100) 328,000
VM.GPU3.4 (GPU: 4xV100) 984,000
VM.Optimized3.Flex (Intel)

60,000 per OCPU

1 OCPU = 60,000 concurrent connections

18 OCPUs = 600,000 concurrent connections
Other Compute Resources

Limits apply to different scopes, depending on the resource.

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Autoscaling configurations Region 200 200
Custom images Region 100 25
Cluster networks Tenancy 15 Contact Us
Instance configurations Region 200 200
Instance pools Region 50 50
Instances per instance pool Region 500 500
Container Engine for Kubernetes Limits

Container Engine for Kubernetes limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Clusters 15 clusters per OCI region 1 cluster per OCI region
Nodes 1000 nodes per cluster 1000 nodes per cluster
Pods 110 pods per node 110 pods per node
Content Management Limits

For Content Management limits, see Service Limits.

Data Catalog Limits

Resource

Scope

Limit
Data Catalog Regional 2 data catalog instances per region
DevOps Limits
Resource Limit Short Name Monthly or Annual Universal Credits Pay-as-You-Go Description
Projects devops-project-count 5000 1000 Maximum number of projects available in DevOps.
Pipelines deployment-pipeline-count 5000 1000 Maximum number of pipelines available in DevOps.
Environments devops-environment-count 5000 3000 Maximum number of environments available in DevOps.
Artifacts devops-artifact-count 5000 1000 Maximum number of artifacts available in DevOps.
Data Flow Limits

Limits apply to each tenancy.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

VM.Standard2.1 35 3
VM.Standard2.2 50 3
VM.Standard2.4 50 0
VM.Standard2.8 50 0
VM.Standard2.16 25 Contact Us 0
VM.Standard2.24 0 Contact Us 0
VM.Total 50 30
Data Integration Limits

Resource

Scope

Limit
Workspace Regional 5 workspaces per region
Data Safe Limits

For Data Safe limits, see Service Limits.

Note

To register an Oracle Database with Data Safe, you must be using a paid account.
Data Science Limits

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Block Volumes 150 30
Block Volume Size in GB 204800 20480
GPUs for VM.GPU2 3 Contact Us
GPUs for VM.GPU3 Contact Us Contact Us
Models 10000 1000
Notebook Sessions 10000 1000
Projects 10000 1000
VM.Standard2 Core 800 60
VM.Standard E2 Core 200 40
Model Deployment Count 30 30
Model Deployment Bandwidth 1000 1000
Data Transfer Limits

Data Transfer limits are regional.

Disk-Based Data Import

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
Transfer package 4 4

File a service request at My Oracle Support to increase the service limits for Disk-Based Data Import. See Requesting a Service Limit Increase for details.

Appliance-Based Data Import and Data Export

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
Transfer appliances See Request Entitlement and Requesting a Service Limit Increase. Contact Your CSM

To place an order for the Oracle-provided Data Transfer Appliance used for appliance-based data transfer and data export jobs, request the required entitlement for your tenancy through the Console or CLI. See Requesting Appliance Entitlement for instructions.

The buyer of your tenancy will be required to e-sign a Terms and Conditions document. After Oracle receives the signed document you will have the entitlement to request and use the Data Transfer Appliance. Appliance-Based Data Import and Data Export each come with a service limit of 2. File a service request if you need to increase that number.

Database Limits

Database limits are per availability domain.

See Data Safe Limits for information on Data Safe. See MySQL Database Limits for information on MySQL Database.

Resources

Monthly Flex

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure - Total OCPUs 160 cores 8 cores
Autonomous Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure - Total OCPUs

Contact Us

Total OCPUs determined by the Exadata hardware shape (quarter rack, half rack, or full rack).

 Contact Us
Autonomous Database on shared Exadata infrastructure - Block Storage 130 TB 2 TB
Always Free Autonomous Database 2 instances 2 instances
Always Free Autonomous Database - Total OCPUs 1 core 1 core
Always Free Autonomous Database - Total Block Storage 20 GB 20 GB
VM.Standard1 -Total OCPUs 300 cores 2 cores
VM.Standard2 -Total OCPUs

300 cores (US West (Phoenix), US East (Ashburn))

50 cores (Germany Central (Frankfurt), UK South (London))

 2 cores
Total VM DB Block Storage (see note) 150TB 2TB
BM.DenseIO1.36 (see availability note ) 50 instances 1 instance
BM.DenseIO2.52 50 instances 1 instance
Exadata.Base.48 Contact Us Contact Us
Exadata.Quarter1.84 - X6 Contact Us Not available
Exadata.Half1.168 - X6 Contact Us Not available
Exadata.Full1.336 - X6 Contact Us Not available
Exadata.Quarter2.92 - X7 Contact Us Contact Us
Exadata.Half2.184 - X7 Contact Us Contact Us
Exadata.Full2.368 - X7 Contact Us Contact Us
Exadata.Quarter3.100 - X8 Contact Us Contact Us
Exadata.Half3.200 - X8 Contact Us Contact Us
Exadata.Full3.300 - X8 Contact Us Contact Us
Note

  • Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure: Exadata X8 (Exadata.Quarter3.100, Exadata.Half3.200, and Exadata.Full3.300) and Exadata X7 limits (Exadata.Quarter2.92, Exadata.Half2.184, and Exadata.Full2.368) include the corresponding Autonomous Exadata Infrastructure shapes.
  • Total VM DB Block Storage: Includes block storage for all VM.Standard1 and VM.Standard2 virtual machine databases.
  • BM.DenseIO1.36: This DB system shape is available only to monthly universal credit customers with tenancies existing on or before November 9th, 2018, in the US West (Phoenix), US East (Ashburn), and Germany Central (Frankfurt) regions.
  • Always Free Autonomous Database: Each of the two Always Free Autonomous Databases available in your tenancy can be provisioned with your choice of Autonomous Transaction Processing or Autonomous Data Warehouse workload types.
Database Migration Limits

Database Migration limits are regional.

Resource Monthly or Annual Universal Credits Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
Migrations 5 5
Registered databases 10 10
Agents 5 5
Digital Assistant Limits

For Digital Assistant limits, see Service Limits.

DNS Limits

DNS limits are global.

Resources

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Zones 1,000 zones 1,000 zones
Records 25,000 per zone 25,000 per zone
Zone File Size 1 MB 1 MB
Email Delivery Limits
Default limits apply to each tenant or availability domain, as specified below. Approved limit increases apply to a specific region. All resources in the table below are eligible for an increase.
Note

Limits cannot be increased without SPF and DKIM set up for each sending domain.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-As-You-Go or Promo
Email volume 50,000 emails sent per 24 hours 200 emails sent per 24 hours
Maximum approved senders 10,000 2,000
SMTP credentials 2 per user 2 per user
Sending rate 18,000 emails per minute 10 emails per minute
Message size (after base64 encoding and headers) 2 MB 2 MB
Note

An email is defined as either a single recipient (as defined in the To:, CC:, or BCC: fields) or a 2 MB chunk of an email.

Email examples:

  • A single request with 10 recipients (TO:, CC:, or BCC:) equals 10 emails.

  • A 10 MB email sent to a single recipient is equal to 10 MB divided by 2 MB per email. This equals 5 emails.

  • A single email request with a message size of 10 MB and 10 recipients is equal to 10 MB dvided by 2 MB per email multiplied by 10 recipients. This equals 50 emails.

The email volume limit applies to unique recipients among all emails sent. For example, a single email sent to 100 recipients would count the same as 100 individual emails each sent to a single recipient.
Note

Email Delivery supports messages up to 2 MB, inclusive of message headers, body, and attachments. If you have SPF and DKIM set up on your sending domain, you can request this limit to be increased based on your requirement. The maximum size that can be requested is 60 MB.

Events Limits

Events limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Rules 50 50
File Storage Limits

Limits apply to each tenant or availability domain, as specified.

Resource

Pre-Paid

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
File systems 100 per tenant per availability domain 100 per tenant per availability domain
Mount targets 6 per tenant per availability domain 2 per tenant per availability domain
Maximum file system size 8 exabytes 8 exabytes
Flexible Network Load Balancing Limits

Flexible Network Load Balancer limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Flexible Network Load Balancer 3 3

See Limits on Network Load Balancing Resources for more information.

Functions Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Applications Region 20 10
Functions Region 500 50
Total memory for concurrent function execution Availability Domain 60 GB 60 GB
GoldenGate Limits

GoldenGate limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Deployments 20 deployments per region 20 deployments per region
Registered Databases 100 registered databases per region 100 registered databases per region
Health Checks Limits

Health Checks limits are global.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Endpoint tests 1000 per account 1000 per account
IAM Limits

IAM limits are global.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
Users in a tenancy 2000 2000
Groups in a tenancy 250 250
Dynamic groups in a tenancy 50 50
Network source groups in a tenancy 10 10
Compartments in a tenancy 1000 1000
Policies in a tenancy 100 100
Statements in a policy 50 50
Users per group in a tenancy 2000 2000
Groups per user in a tenancy 250 250
Identity providers in a tenancy 3 3
Group mappings for an identity provider 250 250
Integration Limits

For Integration limits, see Service Limits.

Java Management Limits

Java Management limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

fleet 50 50
Load Balancing Limits

Load Balancing limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

LB-Capacity-10Mbps 1 Load Balancer 1 Load Balancer
LB-Capacity-100Mbps 3 Load Balancers 1 Load Balancer
LB-Capacity-400Mbps 3 Load Balancers 1 Load Balancer
LB-Capacity-8000Mbps Contact Us Contact Us
Logging Analytics Limits

Logging Analytics limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

loganalytics-log-group 50 50
loganalytics-entity 10,000 10,000
Logging Limits

Logging limits are regional.

Resource

 Scope Monthly or Annual Universal Credits Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
LogGroups Regional 100 100
LogObjects Regional 500 500
UnifiedAgentConfigurations Regional 100 100
MaximumQueriesPerMinute Regional 100 100
MaximumConcurrentQueries Regional 5 5
Management Agent Limits

Resource

Scope

Limit
Management agents Tenant 5000
Management agent install keys Tenant 300
MySQL Database Limits

MySQL Database limits are per availability domain unless explicitly specified.

Resource

Monthly Flex

Pay-as-You-Go

Promo
MySQL Database Block Storage 100000 100000 1000
MySQL Database Manual Backup Count (regional) 1200 1000 100
MySQL Database VM Standard E2.1 instances (deprecated) 5 3 0
MySQL Database VM Standard E2.2 instances (deprecated) 5 3 0
MySQL Database VM Standard E2.4 instances (deprecated) 5 3 0
MySQL Database BM Standard E2.64 instances (deprecated) 5 3 0
MySQL Database VM Standard E2.8 instances (deprecated) 5 3 0
MySQL Database VM Standard E3.1 (8GB RAM) instances 100 100 10
MySQL Database VM Standard E3.1 (16GB RAM) instances 100 100 10
MySQL Database VM Standard E3.16 instances 100 100 10
MySQL Database VM Standard E3.2 instances 100 100 10
MySQL Database VM Standard E3.24 instances 100 100 10
MySQL Database VM Standard E3.32 instances 100 100 10
MySQL Database VM Standard E3.36 instances 100 100 10
MySQL Database VM Standard E3.4 instances 100 100 10
MySQL Database VM Standard E3.64 instances 100 100 10
MySQL Database VM Standard E3.8 instances 100 100 10
MySQL Database for HeatWave VM.Standard.E3 Nodes Count 1 1 1
MySQL HeatWave VM.Standard.E3 Nodes Count 4 4 2
Monitoring Limits

Monitoring limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Alarms 50 50
Metrics (posted by services) Unlimited Unlimited
Networking Limits

Networking service limits apply to different scopes, depending on the resource.

VCN and Subnet Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

VCN Region 50 10
Subnets VCN 300 300
VCN Route Table Limits

This section is specific to limits for VCN route tables. DRG route table limits are provided in the DRG Route Table Limits section.

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

VCN Route tables VCN 300 300
Route rules VCN Route table 100* 100*
* Limit for this resource cannot be increased
DRG Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Dynamic routing gateways (DRGs) Region 5 5
VCN Attachments DRG

300

 10
Import Route Distribution DRG 100 100
Export Route Distribution DRG 1 1
DRG Route Rules - dynamic DRG 20,000 20,000
Route Distribution Statements Route distribution 300 300
Route Distribution Statement match criteria Route distribution statement 1 1
DRG Route Table Limits

This section is specific to limits for DRG route tables. VCN route table limits are provided in the VCN Route Table Limits section.

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

DRG Route Tables DRG 100* 100*
DRG Route Rules - static DRG route table 100 100
ECMP paths

(A single CIDR ECMP-routed across different next-hop attachments)

 DRG route table 8* 8*
VCN attachments assigned to a route table DRG route table 300 300
Virtual circuit attachments assigned to a route table DRG route table 300
IPSec tunnel attachments assigned to a route table DRG route table 300 300
RPC attachments assigned to a route table DRG route table 300* 300*
* Limit for this resource cannot be increased
Gateway Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Dynamic routing gateways (DRGs) Region 5 5
Internet gateways VCN 1* 1*
Local peering gateways (LPGs) VCN

10

 10
NAT gateways VCN 1 1
Service gateways VCN 1 1
* Limit for this resource cannot be increased
IP Address Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Reserved public IPs Region 50 50
Ephemeral public IPs Instance

2 per VM instance

16 per bare metal instance

2 per VM instance

16 per bare metal instance
DHCP Option Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

DHCP options VCN 300 300
Network Security Group Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Network security groups VCN 1000 1000
VNICs Network security group

A given network security group can have as many VNICs as are in the VCN.

A given VNIC can belong to a maximum of 5 network security groups.*

A given network security group can have as many VNICs as are in the VCN.

A given VNIC can belong to a maximum of 5 network security groups.*
Security rules Network security group

120 (total ingress plus egress)

120 (total ingress plus egress)
* Limit for this resource cannot be increased
Security List Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Security lists VCN 300 300
Security lists Subnet 5* 5*
Security rules Security list

200 ingress rules*

and

200 egress rules*

200 ingress rules*

and

200 egress rules*
* Limit for this resource cannot be increased
Site-to-Site VPN Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Site-to-Site VPN IPSec connections Region 4 4
Customer-premises equipment objects (CPEs) Region 10 10
FastConnect Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Cross-connects Region Contact Us Contact Us
Virtual circuits Region 10 10
BYOIP Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

BYOIP Region 10 0
Public IP Pool Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Public IP pool Region 10 0
VLAN Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

VLANs VCN 100 100
NoSQL Database Cloud Limits

For Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud limits, see Service Limits.

Notifications Limits

Notifications limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Topics 50 (Active or Creating*) per tenancy Contact Us
Subscriptions

10 (Active or Pending*) per topic

100 (Pending*) per tenancy

Contact Us
* A lifecycle state. See NotificationTopic Reference and Subscription Reference.
Object Storage and Archive Storage Limits

Object Storage and Archive Storage limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Buckets 10,000 per tenancy 10,000 per tenancy
Objects per bucket Unlimited Unlimited
Operations Insights Limits

Operations Insights limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Database insights (ADBs) - Total OCPUs 800 cores 800 cores
Registry Limits

Container Registry limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Repositories 500 repositories per OCI region 500 repositories per OCI region
Images 100,000 images per repository 100,000 images per repository
Registry Storage 500 GB per OCI region or Contact Us 500 GB per OCI region or Contact Us
Resource Manager Limits

Resource Manager limits are regional.

Resource (per tenant)
 Monthly or Annual Universal Credits Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
Always Free resources
Configuration source providers
 100 100
100
Jobs (concurrent)

20

Job duration: 24 hours

5

Job duration: 24 hours

2

Job duration: 24 hours
Private templates
 10,000 2,000
10
Stacks

10,000

Variables per stack: 250

Size per variable: 8192 bytes

Zip file per stack: 11 MB

2,000

Variables per stack: 250

Size per variable: 8192 bytes

Zip file per stack: 11 MB

10

Variables per stack: 250

Size per variable: 8192 bytes

Zip file per stack: 11 MB
Service Connector Hub Limits

Service Connector Hub limits are regional.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Service connectors 5 5
Streaming Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Streams Tenancy Unlimited Unlimited
Stream pools Tenancy Unlimited Unlimited
Kafka connectors Tenancy Unlimited Unlimited
Partitions Tenancy 5 or Contact Us Contact Us
Maximum message retention period Tenancy 7 days 7 days
Maximum message size Tenancy 1 MB 1 MB
Maximum write rate Partition 1 MB per second 1 MB per second
Maximum read rate Partition 2 MB per second 2 MB per second
Traffic Management Steering Policies Limits

Traffic Management Steering Policies limits are global.

Resource Monthly or Annual Universal Credits Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
Policies 100 per tenant 100 per tenant
Attachments 1,000 per tenant 1,000 per tenant
Vault Limits

Vault service limits apply to different scopes, depending on the resource.

Resources

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
Vaults in a tenancy

10 or Contact Us

10 or Contact Us

Virtual private vaults in a tenancy

Note

Replicated vaults count equally against service limits.
 Contact Us

None

Keys in a vault

Note

  • Key versions can exist across a varying combination of keys or vaults.
  • Key versions, whether enabled or disabled, count against your limits.
  • When calculating usage against service limits for asymmetric keys, each key version increments the count by two. This accounts for both the public key and the private key.
  • Replicated keys count equally against limits.

1000 or Contact Us

100 (software-protected)

20 (hardware-protected)

Keys in a virtual private vault

Note

  • Key versions can exist across a varying combination of keys or vaults.
  • Key versions, whether enabled or disabled, count against your limits.
  • When calculating usage against service limits for asymmetric keys, each key version increments the count by two. This accounts for both the public key and the private key.
  • Replicated keys count equally against service limits.

1000 or Contact Us

None

Secrets in a tenancy

(Secret versions, regardless of rotation state, count against your limits. All secret versions can be in one vault or spread across the allowable number of vaults.)

5000 or Contact Us

150

Secret versions in a secret

50 or Contact Us

(You can have up to 30 secret versions in active use and 30 secret versions pending deletion.)

40

(You can have up to 20 secret versions in active use and 20 secret versions pending deletion.)
VMware Solution Limits

Resource

Scope

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

SDDCs Region Not applicable Not available
ESXi hosts Region 52 cores per host Not available
Vulnerability Scanning Limits

Vulnerability Scanning limits are regional.

Resource Monthly or Annual Universal Credits Pay-as-You-Go or Promo
Host Scan Recipe Count 100 100
Host Target Count 200 200
Container Scan Recipe Count 100 100
Container Target Count 200 200
WAF Limits

WAF limits are global.

Resource

Monthly or Annual Universal Credits

Pay-as-You-Go or Promo

Policies 50 per tenant 50 per tenant

Using the API

For information about using the API and signing requests, see REST APIs and Security Credentials. For information about SDKs, see Software Development Kits and Command Line Interface.

Use the following operations in the Service Limits API to manage limits:

Fractional Usage and Availability

Some resources can have fractional usage and availability, and the Service Limits API reflects this accordingly. If the resource is a fractional one, usage reflects the rounded up value of the fractional usage, and for availability, the rounded down value of the fractional availability. As a result, these fractional availability and usage attributes help indicate the most accurate usage and availability.

For example, if a resource has 2.4 used, 4.6 available, the following API response is returned:

{
    used: 3,
    fractionalUsed: 2.4,
    available: 4.6,
    fractionalAvailable: 4
}

For more information, see the available and used attributes in the ResourceAvailability Reference.