Just to add this Oracle document, classified of course as informational
only, that tries to clarify some aspects of the processor licensing on
"authorized cloud environments":
https://www.oracle.com/assets/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf
Dimitre
On 07/05/2021 18.37, Jeremiah Cetlin Wilton wrote:
Most Oracle licensing agreements make no mention of Azure oCPUs, AWS vCPUs or similar. The count is per core and depends on processor model. For AWS, there's a handy conversion chart here:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/physicalcores/
To get processor types, models, specs, you can look here:
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
I am quite sure the other cloud providers have similar documentation.
Also of note, AWS RDS has provided certain optimizations that may help some Oracle customers manage costs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/new-features-to-reduce-and-optimize-vcpus-on-amazon-rds-for-oracle-data/
Jeremiah
