Term | Description |
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Cloud Account | An entity that groups together several cloud subscriptions. |
Cloud Subscription | A right to use a cloud service for a given period. |
Cloud Service | An application that you can use in the cloud based on your subscription. |
Tenancy / OCI Tenancy | A technical name representing a cloud account and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services that are provided with every new cloud account. There is a 1:1 relationship between a tenancy and a cloud account. |
Region | A geographical location where Oracle services can be provisioned and available to use. A cloud account (or tenancy) can use / subscribe to more than one region. |
Home Region | The region designated to be the main region for your tenancy. This is where your default Identity and Access Management instance will reside and is where you would typically administer your services from. |
Regional vs Global Services | Your cloud services, whether Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) can be regional or global. Most of the services you will use are regional, meaning they exist and can be used in a region. That also means that you can have multiple instances of a single service in several regions, and they will be different from each other and managed independently from each other. Global services will typically be managed from your home region and their features will be available to use in all the regions you subscribe to. Your Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a global service that is managed from your home region but is accessible and provides services to all the regions you subscribed to. Your IAM includes identity domains which are regional and created in a specific region. Your account default identity domain will always be created in your home region. |