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Facts on Oracle DB License in Public Cloud

For Oracle Enterprise Edition License When counting Oracle Processor license requirements in Authorized Cloud Environments, the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table is not applicable. Amazon EC2 and RDS - Two vCPUs as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if hyper-threading is enabled, and One vCPU as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if hyper-threading is not enabled. Microsoft Azure – count one Azure CPU Core as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license. For Oracle Standard Edition License The pricing is based on the size of the instance. Authorized Cloud Environment instances with four or fewer Amazon vCPUs are counted as 1 socket, which is considered equivalent to an Oracle processor license. Authorized Cloud Environment instances with two or fewer Azure CPU Cores Azure vCPUs are counted as 1 socket, which is considered equivalent to an Oracle processor license Few additional facts... For Authorized Cloud Environment instances with more than