Choose Your License and Oracle Database Edition While Provisioning or Cloning (ECPU Compute Model)

Describes how to choose the license type and Oracle Database Edition while provisioning or cloning an Autonomous Database instance.

During provisioning or cloning, in the Choose license and Oracle Database edition area, click Switch to Bring your own license (BYOL) to show the Edit license page.

1. On the Edit license page select a license option from the choices:

   • License included:

     Subscribe to new database software licenses and the database cloud service.

     When the workload type is JSON or APEX, license included is the only choice available.

   • Bring your own license (BYOL):

     Select this option to bring existing database software licenses to the database cloud service when your organization already owns Oracle database software licenses.

     When you select Bring your own license (BYOL) you also specify the Oracle Database Edition. The Oracle Database Edition you specify is based on the licenses you bring to Autonomous Database and determines the values that you can select for the ECPU count.

     Choose one of: Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE) or Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE).

     Oracle Database Edition	Description
     Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE)	You have two options, depending on whether you select Enable the BYOL ECPU limit and set the number of ECPUs to be covered by BYOL (we call this the BYOL ECPU limit option and this option is either selected or deselected): BYOL ECPU limit selected: When you select this option you set a BYOL ECPU limit for your BYOL licenses and any usage beyond the BYOL ECPU limit is billed as License included usage.The value you specify indicates how many licenses to use from your existing Enterprise Edition licenses. That is, the BYOL ECPU limit indicates how many of your existing licenses you are bringing to the Autonomous Database instance. The BYOL ECPU limit you specify indicates how many ECPUs will be covered by the Enterprise Edition licenses you bring. Any ECPU usage beyond the BYOL ECPU limit will not by covered as BYOL, and is billed as License Included usage. BYOL ECPU limit deselected: For this license type the maximum allowed value for ECPU count is 512, however you may contact your Oracle account team to request more ECPUs. With compute auto scaling enabled you can use up to ECPU count x 3 ECPUs. For example, if you set the ECPU count to 512, you can use up to 1,536 ECPUs.
     Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE)	For this license type the maximum allowed value for ECPU count is 32. With compute auto scaling enabled you can use up to ECPU count x 3 ECPUs. This license restricts the number of ECPUs you can use to a maximum of 32 ECPUs, with or without compute auto scaling enabled.

2. Click Save.
3. Continue with any remaining provisioning or cloning steps.

Notes for the BYOL license type:

• See Elastic Pool Notes for information on BYOL usage with an instance that is in an elastic pool.

• The BYOL ECPU limit you set on an Autonomous Data Guard Primary database does not apply to a cross-region or cross-tenancy Autonomous Data Guard Standby database. On a cross-region or cross-tenancy Standby you can independently set the BYOL ECPU limit, as required. Any ECPU usage above the BYOL License limit value will be billed as license included on the Standby.

• For information on Bring your own license (BYOL) and other licensing options for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, see the following:

  • Lower your TCO for Oracle Database Standard Edition with the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) program

  • For BYOL policies, see Oracle Cloud Services contracts. BYOL policies are described in the Oracle PaaS and IaaS Universal Credits Service Descriptions document under Cloud Service Descriptions.

  • Frequently asked questions: Oracle Bring Your Own License (BYOL)

  • Cloud pricing