Choose Bring Your Own License on Autonomous AI Database (ECPU Compute Model)

Describes how to choose Bring Your Own License to your Autonomous AI Database instance.

Note: See Choose Bring Your Own License on Autonomous AI Database (OCPU Compute Model) if you are using the OCPU compute model.

The License type field on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console Autonomous AI Database Information tab shows when you enable the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option. This field shows your license type and Oracle AI Database Edition. For example:

License type: Bring Your Own License (BYOL), Enterprise Edition

The Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option is only available for Autonomous AI Database instances with the Transaction Processing or Lakehouse workload types.

Perform the following prerequisite steps as necessary:

Open the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console by clicking the next to Cloud.
From the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure left navigation menu click Oracle AI Database and then click Autonomous AI Database.
On the Autonomous AI Databases page select an Autonomous AI Database from the links under the Display name column.

To choose Bring Your Own License for your Autonomous AI Database instance:

On the Details page, from the More actions drop-down list, select Update license and Oracle AI Database edition.

On the Update license Oracle AI Database edition page enable or disable Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option from the choices:

Enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL) to bring existing database software licenses to the database cloud service when your organization already owns Oracle AI Database software licenses.

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

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

Oracle AI Database Edition	Description
Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition (EE)	You have two options, depending on whether you select Enable 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. 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 AI 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 by BYOL licenses. 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 AI 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.

Oracle AI Database Edition

Description

Oracle AI Database Enterprise Edition (EE)

You have two options, depending on whether you select Enable 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. 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 AI 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 by BYOL licenses.
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 AI 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.

Click Save.

While the system applies the changes, the lifecycle state changes to Updating. The database remains up and accessible, there is no downtime while the license type updates. When the operation completes the lifecycle state shows Available.

For information on Bring Your Own License (BYOL) licensing options for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, see the following:

Lower your TCO for Oracle AI 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

Notes Update license and Oracle AI Database edition:

If you try to switch to Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Standard Edition when the base ECPU count is above 32, you see the following message:

You cannot select Oracle AI Database Standard Edition unless your ECPU count is a total of sixteen (32) or less ECPUs. Use the Manage Scaling option to adjust your ECPU count before changing to Standard Edition.

In this case, lower your ECPU count before you enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL). See Remove CPU or Storage Resources or Disable Auto Scaling for more information.
If you enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL) field and select Standard Edition when the base ECPU count is 32 and compute auto scaling is enabled, you see the following message:

Compute auto scaling will be disabled with a base ECPU count of 32, under an Oracle AI Database Standard Edition license.

In this case, Compute auto scaling is disabled and the ECPU count is set to 32.
If you select Enable Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Standard Edition when the base ECPU count is below 32 and above 8, with compute auto scaling enabled, you see the following message:

Your compute auto scaling maximum will be set to 32 ECPUs, under an Oracle AI Database Standard Edition license.

In this case, the maximum number of ECPUs with compute auto scaling is 32.
See Pool Leader and Member Licensing Options 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.

See Autonomous Data Guard Notes for information on BYOL usage with Autonomous Data Guard.
For information on Bring Your Own License (BYOL) licensing options for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, see the following:
- Lower your TCO for Oracle AI 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