Oracle Cloud

What's New for Oracle Cloud

Release 16.2
E70164-05
May 2016

Whats New in Oracle Cloud

This chapter lists the new features and enhancements in My Account and My Services
applications and other changes in Oracle Cloud:
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016

May 2016
Learn about the new and changed features of My Services and other changes in Oracle
Cloud.

New and Changed Features in My Services

Feature

Description

A new My Services dashboard for

Cloud credit accounts or
entitlements introduced

Users can a view a different dashboard on logging into

My Services with a domain associated with service
entitlements and can customize the display if required.
See Exploring the My Services Dashboard for
Entitlements section in Managing and Monitoring Oracle
Cloud.

Monitoring Metrics tile enabled

for service administrators to
monitor real-time usage data

Service administrators can view and monitor servicespecific real-time data usage from the Monitoring
Metrics page. See Monitoring Service Usage section in
Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

My Oracle Support (MOS) privacy

flag enabled

Service administrators can now set the privacy flag to

keep data and files associated with My Oracle Support
service requests private. See Viewing Service Details in
My Services section in Managing and Monitoring Oracle
Cloud.

Feature

Description

Overages enabled for service

entitlements

If users opt for overages during purchase, they can

exceed their resource quotas and create additional
instances. See Creating a Service Instance section in
Getting Started with Oracle Cloud.

April 2016
Learn about the new and changed features of My Services and other changes in Oracle
Cloud.

New and Changed Features in My Services

Feature

Description

My Services dashboard optimized

for mobile viewing

Users can view the My Services dashboard on their

mobile phones with better performance and clarity.
Users also have the option to view the full site version,
if required.

Metric tiles renamed on the details

pages

Metric tiles on detail pages have been renamed as

follows:
Metrics to Business Metrics
Metering to Billing Metrics
See Viewing Service Details and Viewing Service
Details in My Services for Entitlements sections in
Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

Firewall tile is now displayed for

entitlements

Firewall tile is now displayed, if supported, for

entitlements. See Viewing Service Details in My
Services for Entitlements section in Managing and
Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

Quota Breach Details tile is now

displayed for entitlements that
have resource quota breaches

Information on quota breaches can be viewed from the

Quota Breach Details tile on entitlement detail pages.
See Viewing Service Details in My Services for
Entitlements and Viewing Service Details in My
Services for Metered Oracle Cloud Services section in
Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

Filtering by entitlements is possible

from My Account and My Services
dashboards

Show filter supports filtering by entitlements. See

Exploring the My Services Dashboard section in
Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

Notifications can now be filtered

by specific communication
categories

Service administrators can filter notifications based on

communication categories. See Monitoring Notifications
section in Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

Other Noteworthy Changes

Feature

Description

Signing in to Oracle Cloud with

identity domain administrator
credentials now enabled

After Single Sign-On (SSO) is enabled, the domain

administrator can now enable sign in to Oracle Cloud
services with the Identity Domain credentials in
addition to the Identity Provider credentials. See
Enabling Sign In With Identity Domain Credentials in
Administering Oracle Cloud Identity Management.

March 2016
Learn about the new and changed features of My Account and My Services and other
changes in Oracle Cloud.

New and Changed Features in My Services

Feature

Description

Option to receive notifications via

Email and SMS

Service administrators can now choose Email and SMS

to receive both general and category notifications. See
Setting Notification Preferences section in Managing and
Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

Changes to limits while creating

rules for entitlements

During alert rule creation, service administrators can

now set hard or soft limits based on the percentage of
purchased amount. See Configuring Alert Rules for
Entitlements and Configuring Alert Rules for Metered
Service Entitlements sections in Managing and
Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

Instance metrics display on

Dashboard

Service administrators can select metrics for instances

(for service entitlements) to display as bar graphs on the
My Services Dashboard. See Exploring the My Services
Dashboard section in Managing and Monitoring Oracle
Cloud.

Option to select specific service

instances while adding or
modifying notification contacts

Notification contacts can now be specified for specific

service instances. See Adding Contacts section in
Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

New and Changed Features in My Home

Feature

Description

Changes to Cloud Home

Changes to the display of service consoles on My Home

and their access. See Accessing Service Consoles section
in Getting Started with Oracle Cloud.

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