A company runs its production database in a public cloud under a bring-your-own-license (BYOL) model. During a seasonal surge, the operations team wants to double the number of vCPUs assigned to the database virtual machine. Which contractual element most directly determines whether the team can make this change without incurring compliance violations or unexpected fees?
The cloud provider's default instance quota for the account
The current capacity status of the target availability zone
The size of the virtual network's address space
The license entitlements and limits defined in the software agreement
License entitlements specify how many processors, vCPUs, or named users an organization is allowed to operate. If the database license caps usage-for example, Oracle Standard Edition 2 limits a BYOL instance to eight vCPUs-scaling beyond that limit requires purchasing additional licenses or upgrading editions. Default cloud quotas (option B) are technical limits that can usually be raised; availability-zone capacity (option C) is an infrastructure constraint; virtual network address space (option D) has no bearing on software licensing. Therefore, the license entitlements and limits in the software agreement are the deciding factor.
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