Lesson 9: OCI Prcing and Billing

Pricing Models, Pricing Example, Billing, Cost Management, Free Tier

Pricing Models

Pay as you go (PAYG)

• Charged only for the resource consumed 仅对消耗的资源收费

• No upfront commitment 没有前期承诺

• No minimum service period 无最低服务期限

• Usage metered hourly 按小时计费

• Consumption based model for services like Oracle Functions 基于Oracle Functions等服务的消耗

Monthly Flex (Universal Credits)

• A minimum of $1000 monthly charge and a minimum 12 months fixed commitment

• Observed 33%-60% saving vs PAYG

• Discounts based on size of deal and term of deal

• Usage is consumed from monthly prepaid commitment

Bring Your Own License (BYOL)

• Apply your current on-premises Oracle licenses to equivalent, highly automated Oracle IaaS & PaaS services in the cloud

• Complete license mobility with on-premises

Factor that impact Pricing

• Resource Size

• Resource Type

  • VMs or BMs

  • VMS or Functions

  • BYOL or managed DBs

  • CPU

  • GPU

  • HPC

• Data Transfer

  • No Ingress cost

  • Careful with Egress cost

• All OCI Regions have the same pricing

Pricing Example

Block Volume Pricing

• Storage cost

• Performance cost (VPU/GB)

Data Transfer costs

• In the same AD: FREE

• bbetween ADs: FREE

• Between Regions:

  • Engress: CHARGE

  • Ingress: FREE

• Rrgion and Internet:

  • To Internet: CHARGE

  • From Internet: FREE

• Dynamic Routing Gateway: FREE

• FastConnect: FREE

Billing, Cost Management

Cost Tracking Tags

When you tag your resources, you could tag them with these cost tracking tags.

Cost Analysis

• Visualization tool Help understand spending patterns at a glance

  可视化工具有助于一目了然地了解支出模式

• Filter costs by Date, Tags and Compartments

• To use Cost Analysis you must be a member of the Administrators group

Budgets

• A monthly threshold you define for your OCI spend

• Can be set on cost-tracking tags or compartments

• Alerts are evaluated every 15 minutes

• Can set email alterts

Usage Reports

• Detailed information about your OCI consumption

• Contained 24 hours of usage data

• Retained for one year

OCI Free Tier

• $300 free credits valid for 30 days

• Up to 8 instances across all availables services

• Up to 5 TB of storage