Order types

OCI supports BYOL and PAYG licensing.

BYOL offers perpetual (normal series and v-series) and annual subscription (s-series, available starting Q4 2019) licensing as opposed to PAYG, which is an hourly subscription available with marketplace-listed products. BYOL licenses are available for purchase from resellers or your distributors, and prices are listed in the publicly available price list that is updated quarterly. BYOL licensing provides the same ordering practice across all private and public clouds, no matter what the platform is. You must activate a license for the first time you access the instance from the GUI or CLI before you can start using various features.

When using a FortiGate-VM PAYG instance, the GUI may display expiry dates for FortiGuard services. However, these expiries are automatically extended for as long as the PAYG instance's lifespan. You do not need to be concerned about the expiry of FortiGuard services. For example, the following screenshot shows 2038/01/02.