{"id":7434,"date":"2018-01-26T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2018-01-26T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T00:00:23","slug":"licensing-oracle-software-in-the-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/blog\/licensing-oracle-software-in-the-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This educational document contains a policy update which applies to cloud computing environments from the following vendors (collectively, the \u2018Authorized Cloud Environments\u2019):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon Web Services<\/li>\n<li>Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)<\/li>\n<li>Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Azure Platform<\/li>\n<li>This policy also applies to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/us\/corporate\/pricing\/authorized-cloud-environments-3493562.pdf\">these Oracle programs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion to Date<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Version 1 has provided a discussion document previously, assessing the impact of Oracle\u2019s Authorized Cloud Policy on AWS and Azure environments. This original whitepaper, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/gain-licensing-control-in-the-cloud\/\">Oracle Authorized Cloud Environments, Overview of Policy Changes<\/a>\u201d<\/strong>,\u00a0is still relevant background reading and provides discussion on topics such as :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>Policy changes<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Contractual considerations<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Existing AWS environments<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Other Cloud Vendors<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oracle Workloads in \u2018Authorised\u2019 Cloud Environments <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This key Oracle document, which provides guidance to customers deploying Oracle workloads in \u2018Authorized\u2019 cloud environments, namely <strong>AWS EC2\/RDS<\/strong> and <strong>Azure<\/strong> may be of concern to those considering using either of these cloud providers for Oracle workloads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Policy Update January 2018 &#8211; Licensing on Azure Clarified <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The changes issued to the policy document on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> of January 2018 concern deployment on Azure. Oracle have provided clarification on counting of Azure vCPUs and their relationship to hyperthreading. This update is in-line with clarification provided by Azure on the use of hyperthreading in their environments. In summary:<\/p>\n<p>Previously (prior to change on 23 January 2018), Oracle stated that an Azure CPU Core was equivalent to one Oracle Processor license.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest update: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If hyperthreading is enabled, 2 vCPU = 1 Processor license<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If hyperthreading is not enabled, 1 vCPU = 1 Processor license<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, counting license requirements for Azure or AWS EC2\/RDS is no different. Although Azure and AWS are now considered equal in the context of Oracle licensing, it is crucial to note <strong>that the Oracle core factor of 0.5 is still not applicable in either AWS or Azure environments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to view a detailed discussion considering wider cloud licensing implications, Version 1 has made the\u00a0<strong>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/gain-licensing-control-in-the-cloud\/\">Oracle Licensing in the Cloud<\/a>\u2019<\/strong> whitepaper, which includes topics such as:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cloud \u2018types&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Oracle\u2019s Cloud policy for AWS\/Azure<\/li>\n<li>Oracle Cloud<\/li>\n<li>Non-approved providers<\/li>\n<li>Cloud Behaviours<\/li>\n<li>SAM process considerations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/talk-to-us\/\">contact Version 1<\/a> should you have any enquiries about your move to cloud and Oracle software licensing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This educational document contains a policy update which applies to cloud computing environments from the following vendors (collectively, the \u2018Authorized Cloud Environments\u2019): Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Microsoft Azure Platform This policy also applies to these Oracle programs. &nbsp; Discussion to Date Version 1 has provided a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[128,102],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-7434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-cloud-home","tag-sam-home"],"acf":[],"translations":[{"blog_id":1,"post_id":7434,"name":"Europe","code":"EN-GB","hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/blog\/licensing-oracle-software-in-the-c\/","is_current":false},{"blog_id":13,"post_id":7434,"name":"Americas","code":"EN-US","hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/blog\/licensing-oracle-software-in-the-c\/","is_current":true}],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment | Version 1 (US)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Find out more about Licensing Oracle Software in an authorized cloud environment, namely AWS EC2\/RDS and Azure. 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