Please don't cherry pick quotes. The full quote with the bit you left out is as follows: > Amazon EC2 and RDS - count two vCPUs as equivalent to one Oracle Pro

Please don't cherry pick quotes. The full quote with the bit you left out is as follows: > Amazon EC2 and RDS - count two vCPUs as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if hyper-threading is enabled, and one vCPU as equivalent to one Oracle Processor license if hyper-threading is not enabled. As you see, your own quote confirms that yes the rumors are true: Oracle does charge per CPU.