Billing Metrics of Autonomous Data Warehouse Associated with Fusion Data Intelligence
Oracle Autonomous Database introduced a more advanced ECPU billing metric and is now retiring the legacy OCPU billing metric for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse.
ECPUs provide the same price-performance as OCPUs with continuous
improvements over time. Updating to the ECPU and storage billing metrics provides the
following additional benefits:
- Lower entry cost.
- Finer granularity for scaling the data warehouse.
- Lower storage costs.
Using ECPU impacts your service in the following ways:
- When you sign into Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console, you'll see the provisioned capacity stated in ECPUs.
- Any scale up done by you for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse will thereafter be billed against the replacement ECPU billing metrics based on your rate card for OCI billing.
- All database tools will be turned off by default. If you've already been using any of these tools such as APEX, then no data loss will occur when they're turned off. You can turn them on from the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console. If you wish to use database tools such as Oracle Machine Learning (OML), Graph Studio, or Data Transforms, then you must allocate dedicated ECPUs that will consume credits against your Universal Credits (UCC) subscription. For more information, see Manage Autonomous Database Built-in Tools.
Reach out to your Oracle contact and review the Universal Credits (UCC) subscription agreement and make sure you understand the ECPU billing metric. If you have general questions about preparing for this change, then contact your Oracle account team, or connect through Fusion Data Intelligence customer forum or create a service request (SR) on My Oracle Support.