Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Private Offer

Learn about the private offer purchase option for Oracle Database@AWS.

To receive a private offer, you first contact Oracle's sales team to negotiate a contract for Oracle Database@AWS. Billing and payment for the service is done through AWS. Payment for Oracle Database@AWS counts toward your AWS Commitments. Existing Oracle Database software customers can use the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option or Unlimited License Agreements (ULAs). On your regular AWS invoices, you'll see charges for Oracle Database@AWS alongside charges for your other AWS Marketplace services.

Business Relationship and Offer

OCI offers customers Oracle Database@AWS through private offer purchase in the AWS Marketplace.

To receive a private offer, your organization contacts the Oracle Sales team and negotiates a service price based on parameters such as length of contract, spend commitment, and number of Exadata hardware deployments. After you successfully negotiate and sign a contract with Oracle, OCI creates a private offer for your organization in AWS Marketplace for you to accept. After your organization signs the purchase agreements, OCI creates an order in the AWS Marketplace and sends you an email confirming the offer.

Offer Activation

To activate an order, do the following:

  • Private Offer: Select the link in the email you received from Oracle, or open the AWS Marketplace Orders page, then select the link for your offer.

At this point, you connect your AWS account with a new or existing OCI cloud account. Here's what happens during this process:

  • AWS Marketplace prompts you to select an existing OCI cloud account, or create a new OCI cloud account to use with the Oracle Database@AWS. An OCI account is required because, while the databases are deployed in your AWS environment, some resource components like container database (CDB) and pluggable databases (PDBs) are configured using OCI console.
  • The AWS and OCI accounts are linked. During this process, the service defines a connection between a AWS account (selected by the user) and an Oracle Database Subscription for the service. This defines the mapping between AWS and OCI that's used when provisioning resources in both environments, managing billing, delivering metrics, and more.

For more information on offer activation, see Purchase and Link an OCI Account.