Oracle Database Deployment Options Cheatsheet
| Deployment Option | On-Premises | AWS | Azure | GCP | OCI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IaaS – Bare Metal | Physical Infrastructure (BYOL) | EC2 Bare Metal (OLVM)(BYOL) | Bare Metal Instances (BYOL) | Bare Metal Solution (OLVM) (BYOL) | Bare Metal Compute Shapes (BYOL, PPU/LI) | |
| IaaS – Virtualized | Oracle Hypervisor (OVM, OLVM/KVM) | Virtual Machine (BYOL) | n/a | n/a | n/a | VM Compute Shapes (BYOL, PPU/LI) |
| Other Hypervisor | Virtual Machine (BYOL) Oracle hard partitioning restrictions apply. In general whole physical machine needs to be licensed. | EC2 (BYOL) Oracle cloud licensing does not support all products and options (notable: RAC). Core factor table does not apply, in general 2x number of licenses required compared to OCI. | VM Compute Instances (BYOL) Oracle cloud licensing does not support all products and options (notable: RAC). Core factor table does not apply, in general 2x number of licenses required compared to OCI. | n/a | ||
| PaaS | Autonomous DB on Exadata C@C supports PPU and LI for OCPUs; Base infrastructure has minimum lease of 4 years. | RDS For Standard Edition PPU/LI is available, Enterprise Edition requires BYOL. Supports versions 12.1.0.2 up to 21c. | n/a | n/a | Oracle Base DB (DBaaS on VM or Bare Metal) Autonomous DB on shared Exadata infrastructure Dedicated Exadata infrastructure (All: BYOL, PPU/LI) | |
| Multi-Cloud Integrated Oracle Offering Other scenarios behave just like any other Multi-Cloud Setup | Oracle Database Services for Azure (ODSA) Databases are deployed (and billed) in OCI Azure-OCI Interconnect | Oracle Database Services for Azure (ODSA) All OCI DB PaaS available in Azure (BYOL, PPU/LI) Azure-OCI Interconnect | ||||
| Hybrid Cloud | Physical or Virtual Infrastructure as described above (BYOL) Exadata C@C as described above (PPU/LI) | On-premises databases can be managed in OCI Exadata C@C has control plane in OCI | ||||
BYOL = Bring Your Own License; PPU = Pay Per Use; LI = License Included
