Overview of Setting Up a Nonmetered Oracle Cloud Service

Set up your account

1. Purchase a nonmetered Oracle Cloud service

Go to cloud.oracle.com. Don't have an oracle.com account? Click here to sign up.
Purchase a nonmetered service. When approved, you'll get an activation email titled:
Welcome to Oracle Cloud. Start your service.

2. Activate your service

Click Complete My Order in the Welcome email.

You'll then get a service-ready email titled:

Welcome to Oracle Cloud. Your service is ready.

This email contains the details required to access the service.

If you've purchased resources, then you must set up an Oracle Cloud Services account to activate your service. Click Cloud Services Account Setup in the Welcome email.

You'll then get a service-ready email titled:

Welcome to Oracle Cloud. Your Oracle Public Cloud Services are ready for use. Some services may require additional configuration and provisioning steps.

This email contains the details required to access the service and create service instances.

Set up your service

3. Access your service

Access your service by clicking the appropriate link in the "Your Service is ready" or "Your Oracle Public Cloud Services are ready" email.
Sign in using the details provided in the email, then change your password and set your security questions when prompted.

4. Set your language preferences

Set your language and time zone preferences when prompted.

5. Add or import users and assign roles

Sign in to My Services.
Click Users > Users.
Click Add to add a new user OR

Click Import to add multiple users from a .csv file.

Assign a role to a user.
If you've purchased resources, assign the Entitlement Administrator role to a user and continue to the next step, else go to Step 8.

Set up service instances if you've purchased resources

6. Create service instances

As an Entitlement Administrator, navigate to your service in the My Services dashboard.
Click Create Service Instance.
Specify a unique name and other details for your service instance. The fields displayed here depend on the service you have purchased.

7. View service instance details

In the My Services dashboard, navigate to your service.
Click the service name to open the service details page.
Click the tiles to view details of your service. Details you can view depend on the service type.

View details of your service

8. View details

Sign in to My Account.
In the dashboard, navigate to your service.
Click the service name to open the service details page.
Click the tiles to view details of your service. Details you can view depend on the service type.

You're done!

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