Adding Subscriptions into an Existing Cloud Account
If you already use Oracle cloud services, you might consider adding the new subscribed services to one of your existing cloud accounts.
In that case here are some additional considerations:
• When adding new subscriptions to an existing cloud account, the default identity domain of that account will be used as the primary identity management for your new services.
• That means that if your existing cloud services use that default identity domain to manager your cloud service user community, your new services will share the same community - you will be able to grant access to your new services as needed but you will still manage one community of users for your existing and new services.
• If you want to separate your user communities of your cloud services - for example if these are servicing different department in your organization, then you might consider creating a new cloud account instead of adding the new services into an existing one.
• Note: There is one common K1IPROCESS user (a "Process Automation Internal User" system account user) that is defined for each cloud service. If you are using the same identity domain for your existing and new services, this system account will be shared across services. This means that the same credentials associated with that user in your existing services will apply to your new service. While this is not a concern and should not cause any issues, it is important to note that as part of the use case of managing a single user community for multiple cloud services.
• If you are adding your new services to an existing cloud account, you will be also using the same home region as the existing account. It is strongly recommended to contact your Oracle Energy and Water Service Delivery Manager and verify the region your new services will be provisioned in. If the region for the new services is different than the existing cloud account home region you will have to weigh the potential network latency, between your services and your identity management, against the convenience of having all services under one cloud account. Having all services, existing and new, on the same home region, is the optimal situation.
The following diagram (see Figure 3.2) illustrates a case of adding a new Oracle Energy and Water cloud service into an existing account that already has other cloud services.
Figure 3.2 - Adding new service to an existing account
In this case a new service subscription was added into an existing account. The two cloud services share the same home region and default identity domain for user and resource management and have access to OCI services in several regions.
There are many ways to host multiple services in the same cloud account. Since the diagram above is just one simple example, please consider the following:
• Multiple services can exist in the same cloud account but in different regions.
• Multiple services can all share the default identity domain or use different identity domain (that can be created in the cloud account in additional to the default identity domain).
• If you have any doubts as to what your account and services configuration should be, please contact your Oracle Energy and Water Service Delivery Manager, before you make decisions that cannot be changed later.