Create Your Instance in Another Region
If you want to create your Oracle Content Management instance in a region other than your primary region, there are some preliminary steps you need to perform before you create the instance.
Oracle Infrastructure and Platform Cloud Services (Oracle IaaS/PaaS) are enabled in different data centers. These data centers are grouped into data regions based on their geographic locations. When you purchase these services or sign up for a free promotion, you typically choose the data region closest to your location to access them. This becomes your primary data region. However, if required, you can extend your subscription to other geographical regions (within the same Oracle Cloud account) and use the services there. For example, if you selected North America as your primary data region during your purchase, you can extend your subscription to the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) data region. By doing so, you’ll enable your users to use services available in the EMEA data centers.
To create an instance in another region, perform these preliminary steps:
- Extend your subscription to another region.
- Switch to the new region by selecting the new region from the Region menu.
- If the new region isn't in the same geographical area as your home region, you must create a new domain in that region. For example, if your home region is US East (Ashburn), which is in the North America geographical region, and you extend your subscription to Canada Southeast (Toronto), you're not required to create a new domain. However, if you extend your subscription to UK South (London), which is in the EMEA geographical area, you do need to create a new domain in that region. For a list of regions and geographical areas, see Data Regions for Platform and Infrastructure Services.
What to Do Next
After switching to your new region, perform any other necessary advanced pre-deployment tasks or skip right to creating your instance:
- Delegate creation of Oracle Content Management instances to other users.
- Create your instance in a secondary domain to accommodate different identity and security requirements (for example, one instance for development and one for production).
- Create a private instance to ensure access is limited to internal networks and that end users have the best and most reliable connection possible.
- Create your Oracle Content Management instance in the new region.