If you want to create an Oracle Content Management instance in a region other than your primary region, there are some preliminary steps you need to perform before you create the instance.

Oracle Infrastructure and Platform Cloud Services (Oracle IaaS/PaaS) are enabled in different data centers. These data centers are grouped into data regions based on their geographic locations. When you purchase these services or sign up for a free promotion, you typically choose the data region closest to your location to access them. This becomes your primary data region. However, if required, you can extend your subscription to other geographical regions (within the same cloud account) and use the services there. For example, if you selected North America as your primary data region during your purchase, you can extend your subscription to the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) data region. By doing so, you’ll enable your users to use services available in the EMEA data centers.

To create an instance in another region, perform these preliminary steps:

1. Extend your subscription to another region.
2. Federate Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) from the new region with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

What to Do Next

After extending your subscription and federating the new region, perform any other necessary advanced pre-deployment tasks or skip right to creating your instance:

• Create your instance in a secondary domain to accommodate different identity and security requirements (for example, one environment for development and one for production).
• Create a private instance to ensure access is limited to internal networks and that end users have the best and most reliable connection possible.
• Create your Oracle Content Management instance in the compartment you created.