3.1.2 Getting Started with your Cloud Service

To get started, you must activate the subscribed Cloud Service.

After activating the cloud service, you can log in as an administrator and perform the following tasks.

After the administrator successfully adds an application user, they can log in and activate their cloud account and use the subscribed cloud services provisioned by the administrator.

Choosing Between a New or Existing Cloud Account

Every administrator in a cloud account (tenancy) has access to all subscriptions within that account. To ensure that new administrators cannot access existing subscriptions, you should activate new subscriptions in a separate tenancy by creating a new Oracle Cloud Account. If separate access controls are not needed, you may add new subscriptions to an existing Oracle Cloud Account.

  • Create and Activate New Cloud Account
    After you subscribe to the cloud service, you will receive a Welcome to Oracle Cloud email with details to create and activate your cloud account.
  • Add to an Existing Oracle Cloud Account
    If you already have a cloud account associated with your administrator user name, you can add the newly subscribed cloud service to that account.
  • Accessing the Cloud Account
    An Administrator can access the Cloud Account activated and associated with their email address.
  • Creating Co-Administrator Users
    After you log in to the IAM console, the first task is to create additional user accounts.
  • Subscribing to a Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Region
    In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a Disaster Recovery (DR) region is a secondary, geographically separate region that helps ensure service continuity.
  • Creating Custom Domain
  • Create an Environment
    After logging into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, an Administrator can create one or multiple environments/instances for different user groups.
  • Access Oracle Identity and Access Management
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (IAM) provides identity and access management features such as authentication, single sign-on (SSO), and identity life cycle management for Oracle Cloud as well as Oracle and non-Oracle applications, whether SaaS, cloud-hosted, or on-premises. Employees, business partners, and customers can access applications at any time, from anywhere, and on any device in a secure manner.
  • Activate Application User Account
    A user provisioned by their administrator can use the specific cloud services they have subscribed to.

Parent topic: Getting Started with Oracle Cloud