Metering and billing for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Migration Service is based on the number of Migration Hours elapsed.

A Migration Hour is defined as the amount of time that a Migration Job is running, where running is defined as a Migration Job being in an IN_PROGRESS or WAITING state. Partial Migration Hours consumed are billed as partial hours with a one-minute minimum.

Migration Jobs are only metered if either of the following is true:

• The Migration Job is running more than 183 days (6 months) after creation
• The Migration Job is running for more than 60 days idle (no data transferred)

Migration Hours are billed down to the Second level. Note that the minimum amount billed will be 1 minute. That is, if a resource is spun up for less than 60 seconds, the customer will still be charged for 1 minute. For any usage over 1 minute, all usage will be tracked at the Second level.

You can monitor the Migration Hours of a Migration Job in the Console under Governance & Administration, in Cost and Usage Reports. The migration billing meter should be included in the report as service name DATABASEMIGRATION.