Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports bare metal instance types for the Standard Edition 2 under Bring Your Own License (BYOL) terms, enabling greater transparency into underlying hardware configurations such as CPU core and socket counts.
This support can allow customers to optimize commercial license and support costs due to predictable server configurations. Bare metal instances are offered at a price reduction compared to equivalent virtualized instances, with various compatible server instance families and configurations available.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle extends support for bare metal instances to Standard Edition 2 ↗Source published 2026-01-20. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.