Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Buy an Oracle Cloud Subscription

Use the Oracle Cloud website to estimate your cloud usage and costs for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services and to sign up for an Oracle Cloud account. You can also contact an Oracle Sales representative to order Oracle Cloud services on your behalf.

To purchase a subscription to Oracle Cloud Applications (SaaS), see Order Oracle Cloud Applications.

About Bring Your Own License Subscriptions

If you already have Oracle software licenses for services such as Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, or Oracle Analytics, you can reuse them when subscribing to Oracle Platform Cloud Services (Oracle PaaS). This is called Bring Your Own License (BYOL).

With BYOL, you can leverage existing software licenses for Oracle PaaS at a lower cost. For example, if you have purchased a perpetual license for Oracle Database Standard Edition earlier, then you can use the same when you buy Database Standard Package with BYOL pricing. This enables you to get a discounted price for your services. Oracle BYOL to PaaS includes Compute and Compute support along with automation.

You continue to get the same license support (that you had for your existing licenses) and contract when you buy Oracle PaaS with BYOL pricing. This flexible licensing allows you to move between your on-premises and cloud services with ease.

How do You Use Your BYOL for Oracle PaaS?

When you have an existing Oracle software license and you want to use it on Oracle Cloud, you can do so in the following ways:

  • Select specific Oracle BYOL options in the Cost Estimator to get your BYOL pricing.

  • Apply your BYOL pricing to individual cloud service instances when creating a new instance of your PaaS service. BYOL is the default licensing option during instance creation for all services that support it. For example, when creating a new instance of Oracle Database Cloud Service using the QuickStarts wizard, BYOL option is automatically applied.

For a list of cloud services that support BYOL, search for BYOL in the Universal Credits Service Descriptions Document.

For more information, see BYOL Overview video and Frequently Asked Questions.

About Oracle Universal Credits

Oracle Cloud provides a flexible buying and usage model for Oracle Cloud Services, called Oracle Universal Credits.

When you sign up for an Oracle Cloud Account, you have unlimited access to all eligible IaaS and PaaS services. You can sign up for a Pay As You Go subscription to pay in arrears based on your actual usage at the end of your monthly billing cycle.

After you sign up, you can start using any of the IaaS or PaaS services at any time. Not all services are available in all the data regions. You can only use services in the data regions that your subscription is enabled in. However, you can always extend your subscription to other data regions to access services available there. See Extending Your Subscription to Another Data Region.

When new eligible services become available as part of the Oracle Universal Credits program, you'll receive an email with the details of the newly added services if they're available in one of your enabled data regions.

For new services added to data regions where your subscription isn't enabled, see the Service Availability Matrix.

Upgrade Your Free Oracle Cloud Promotion

You can upgrade your Free Trial to a paid account at any time during the promotion period or within 30 days of the promotion expiration.

If you're using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, then you can upgrade your Free Trial to a paid account from the Upgrade and Manage Payment page. For more information, see Upgrading to a Paid Account and Managing Account Upgrades and Payment Method.

Activate Your Order from Your Welcome Email

If you ordered Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (Oracle IaaS) and Oracle Platform as a Service (Oracle PaaS) cloud services with Universal Credits through Oracle Sales, then you must activate your services before you start using them.

When an Oracle Sales representative orders Oracle Cloud services on your behalf, you'll receive a welcome email. Anyone who is forwarded the email can do the activation of your services. To activate your services, you must provide your details and set up your account with Oracle, however, the process can differ whether you:

  • Need to create a new cloud account and activate the associated subscription.
    Note

    When you sign up for Oracle Cloud, you get a cloud account and an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tenancy. Also see Renaming a Tenancy and Cloud Account for more information.
  • Already have an existing cloud account and you need to activate the associated subscription into it. You can also activate additional Oracle Universal Credits subscriptions (with one or more product SKUs) into an existing account.

After signing up, you'll receive an email that allows you to start the process of adding subscriptions to a cloud account, whether for a new or existing cloud account.

If you need to create a new cloud account
  1. Open the email you received from Oracle Cloud.
  2. Review the information about adding your subscription in the email.
  3. Select Create new cloud account at the bottom of the email.
  4. Your web browser opens with the New Cloud Account Information sign up form, which indicates your subscription information, and also provides a brief explanation of Oracle regions and cloud accounts.
  5. Enter your username (email address) and password to create the new user account, and select a home region.
  6. Select Create Cloud Account.

    A confirmation is displayed indicating that your cloud account is being created. You'll next receive an email that your cloud account and tenancy are ready, and that your services are ready to use.

    Select Sign in to sign in to the Console and get started with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You'll see a notification in the Console that your subscriptions have been successfully added to your tenancy.

If you need to add one or more subscriptions to an existing cloud account
  1. A cloud account administrator must first provide administrator privileges to the user that's activating the order. For more information, see Add a User with Oracle Cloud Administrator Permissions.
  2. Open the email you received from Oracle Cloud.
  3. Review the information about adding your subscription in the email. The subscription ID and product SKU is listed. If you're activating more than one subscription, they're also listed with the associated SKUs.
  4. Select Add to existing cloud account.
  5. Your web browser opens, where you can next sign in to your cloud account with your username and password.

    On the Add subscription page, you can add the new subscription to your tenancy. The tenancy name, subscription name, subscription ID, and product description (SKU) are shown.

    Note

    The Add subscription page doesn't persist and is only accessible during order activation. You can't return to it later unless you have another subscription to activate from your email.

    You can view subscription information in the Console on the Subscriptions page in Billing & Cost Management. If the tenancy is a parent tenancy in an organization, then you can also view subscription information in the Subscription Mapping page in Organization Management, and on the Cost Analysis page.

    For more information, see Subscriptions, Listing Subscriptions, and Viewing Subscription Details and Costs.

  6. Select Add subscription.
  7. In the Confirmation panel, confirm adding of the new subscription by entering the tenancy name in the entry field.
    Important

    Adding a subscription to a tenancy can't be undone.
  8. Select Confirm.

    A dialog about adding your subscriptions is displayed, indicating that you'll receive another email notifying you that your new services are ready to use.

  9. Select Close.

    The Console home page opens, and you can start using your services.

Verify That Your Services Are Ready

When you sign up for a Free Oracle Promotion or a paid account, your Oracle Cloud account and tenancy are created very soon after sign up (within a couple of minutes), but activation and service provisioning takes some time. After everything is ready, you'll receive an email with a Sign in button that allows you to sign in directly.

Note

Not all services are activated immediately. For instance, some services can take up to 48 hours to activate.

Sign in to the Console to view your provisioned services. You'll see a notification in the Console about the status of your service provisioning.

You can verify your services in the Dashboards service. Open the navigation menu and select Dashboards on the Home page. For more information, Overview of Console Dashboards.