Explanation
The available purchase models are:
Pay As You Go (PAYG):Billed in arrears based on consumption. Recommended fororganizations who are trying new services, rapid prototyping, or for elastic scaling.
Monthly Flex:Billed in advance with a 12-month minimum. Use monthly or forfeit that month's credits.Recommended for customers with predictable production workloads orlarge long-running applications, such as HR, payroll, analytics, and more.Monthly Flex maximizes cost reduction with predictable monthly spend, similar to your monthly phone plan. Delivers faster time to market by offering customers the choice of usingany IaaS and PaaS services.
Oracle's current PaaS offering is "license-included PaaS." It includes:
Compute and compute support
Automation
License entitlement and license support
Bring your own license
BYOL stands for "bring your own license." Previously, you could bring your own licenses to Oracle IaaS, but to get the benefits of PaaS automation, you couldn't leverage existing licenses. This has been changed. We're offering Oracle BYOL to PaaS, enabling our customers to leverage their investment inexisting on-premises licenses in their journey to the cloud.
Oracle BYOL to PaaS includes:
Compute and compute support
Automation
Customers bring their on-premises license entitlement and get license support via their existing on-premises supportcontract.
As customers leverage their existing on-premises license entitlement, they can move to the cloud at a lower cost.