Welcome to Oracle University's, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Oracle Autonomous Database course. Today we're going to talk about money. Yes, that's what I said. I am going to show you how autonomous database is licensed. We do have a fully free version of Oracle Autonomous Database, and I mean, absolutely free, but there are other licensing options that I'm going to cover for you today. My name is Kay Malcolm, and I am a Senior Director of Database Product Management here at Oracle. When it comes to pricing and billing, you're only charged for the baseline at any given point in time. When it auto-scales, you only get charged for the average number of OCPUs. An OCPU is an Oracle Cloud CPU that was consumed during a complete cycle of an hour. Let's look at a few billing scenarios. Billing scenario 1. We have a CPU count of four, and auto-scaling is enabled. But the database, it's fairly idle. It's not really doing a whole lot of work, and there's no reason to scale above our auto-scale count of four, our OCPU baseline of four. In this case, our average OCPU consumption would be reported to us as four OCPUs for the hour. We've only been charged for the minimal amount, and we also suggest you do the same thing. When configuring your autonomous database, set your OCPU to the minimal amount so that you're not billed for services that you're not going to use. Then when there's a peak requirement, perhaps like once a month when you need to double or triple the capacity that you would normally use, at that point in time, you want to enable auto-scaling. Let's look at another billing scenario. Billing scenario 2. Here we have a busier workload. It's still the same number of OCPUs enabled, and we have auto-scaling enabled as well. In this case, we can see our workload is running along, but this time we're actually going beyond. ADB has determined that our workload has in fact required additional CPU cycles. Take note. We haven't tripled the number of CPUs, we've merely doubled them. So at the end of the day, our bill is based on a 50 percent average of those additional CPUs. Our bill comes out to only six OCPUs for that entire hour. We've been able to get the additional capacity that we need to finish our workload sooner. As soon as the workload was completed, ADB detected that we were able to lower our OCPUs back to the baseline. When it comes to pricing and billing, you're only charged for the baseline at any given point in time. When it auto-scales, you only get charged for the average number of OCPUs that were consumed during a complete cycle of an hour. Let's look at the licensing and licensing types and how to change that. We have two main licensing types. We have bring your own license, I call that BYOL. BYOL provides a significant discount on the hourly rate that you're charged, and the autonomous database licensing in order to benefit from this BYOL, first of all, you've got to be licensing the Database Enterprise Edition on-premise, and you have to also have an on-premise license for the multi-tenant option. If you have multi-tenant option, any Enterprise Edition of the license, you qualify for running 1-16 OCPUs of your Oracle Autonomous Database, and you can apply your on-premise licensing to your environment. Now if you wish to go beyond 16 OCPUs, 17, 18, 20, or more, you would need to additionally have the Real Application Cluster license on-premise in place as well. In addition to that form of licensing, we also have an Always Free Autonomous Database, always free. The Always Free Autonomous Database service allows you to create up to two autonomous databases. Maybe you want an ATP, which is Autonomous Transaction Processing, and ADW, which is Autonomous Database Warehouse. They're both limited to one OCPU each and 20 gig of storage. This is meant for small footprint databases, but they live forever. The way you go about this is you would subscribe for a 30-day free trial, and then upon that 30-day free trial ending, you could then convert to an Always Free account. That's one thing you can do. You can also convert an Always Free account to a paid account. In this case, your database can now consume more than one OCPU. In addition to the two autonomous databases, you can also create two virtual machines. Keep in mind, these virtual machines are running with 1/8 of an OCPU and one gig of memory. They're a very small footprint, but they're really good for functional testing, being able to connect to run a workload against your autonomous database, all entirely within the Cloud. In terms of storage, you're also allocated two-block volumes, which is 100 gigabytes total. You're also allocated 10 gigabytes of objects storage and 10 gigabytes of archives storage. It's a very good service, considering it is 100 percent free to use forever. We do have a mechanism in place if your databases or your services are idle beyond a certain period of time, we will automatically shut them down or pause them, but we're going to email you and notify you that we have paused them. If you want, you can go in, restart it, and then we'll also notify you that after a certain number of days, I think it's months, of being idle, we'll notify you that this account has been idle for a while and that we're going to terminate it unless we get a notification from you. It's a very straightforward way to do things and we don't touch anything that's running. You can convert from BYOL to license required, and also from license required to BYOL. Here's an example of a database that's running with BYOL or bring your own license. Let's see how to toggle the license type from BYOL to license included. Now click the Actions drop-down list, then select the Update license type. We're setting it to be subscribed to a regular license included. Once we click "Update", the license type changes to licensed included. So it is possible to toggle between both types of licenses dynamically and on the go without incurring any downtime. To wrap up, we talked about money today with the autonomous database. There is an Always Free account where you get two autonomous databases and two virtual machines, always free forever. If you need to scale beyond two OCPUs, we have the actual BYOL licensing and the licensing standard licensing available in autonomous database. Go out there and create an instance. Thanks for watching.
