Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Billing and Licensing

This topic highlights some important aspects of billing and licensing for Resource Analytics.

Billing Metrics of Oracle Autonomous AI Database Associated with Resource Analytics

Resource Analytics requires an Oracle Autonomous AI Database (ADW) instance, and optionally an Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) instance.

Although the resource updates provided by Resource Analytics are free, use of ADW and OAC is chargeable:

ECPU Billing

Oracle Autonomous AI Database uses the ECPU billing metric.

ECPUs provide the same price-performance as OCPUs with continuous improvements over time. Updating to the ECPU and storage billing metrics provides the following other benefits:
  • Lower entry cost
  • Finer granularity for scaling the data warehouse
  • Lower storage costs
See the ECPU billing metric FAQ for more details about ECPUs and associated benefits.

Bring Your Own License (BYOL)

Resource Analytics is powered by Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, and optionally Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). These tools are provisioned and tuned for use with Resource Analytics as part of the Resource Analytics provisioning process. However, you may select a BYOL option for both the database and OAC to bring your existing software licenses to the cloud service, if they're available. Note that Resource Analytics requires Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.

To use BYOL, select this option while completing the Resource Analytics create instance form.