• If you do not have an existing account for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, you will likely go thought the activation process twice:

• One activation will be for your Oracle Energy and Water services

• One activation will be for your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services

• Since the order of the activation can vary, you should:

• Create a new cloud account on the first activation (whichever subscription it is for).

• After the cloud account for the first activation was created and provisioning was completed, add the services in the second activation to the account created by the first activation.

• If your first activation is not for the Oracle Energy and Water service, remember to apply all the considerations for administration users and home region as if it was for the Oracle Energy and Water service. This is since in the end both subscriptions will reside in the same cloud account, using the same default identity domain and the same home region.

• If you already have an existing subscription to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services and you are planning to use these services for your new Oracle Energy and Water subscription (e.g. Oracle Energy and Water cloud services require access to Object Storage in order to exchange file for integration and data conversion) then you should activate your new subscriptions into that existing cloud account.

• In this case you should still consider the home region of the existing account and whether it is in sync with the planned provisioned region of your new cloud services.

• If it is not the same, you will have to weigh the possible network latency in identity management access vs getting an additional subscription for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services and adding that to the new account you will create for your new Oracle Energy and Water services.