Thanks Sam. My apologies, I may have erred in my choice of words above. When I meant support of Oracle for SAP workloads on GCP, I intended to mean aligning with Oracle's policy here (and that's what is carefully articulated in Google blog). It mentions "..close to Google Cloud" (not on Google Cloud) - in a colo setup.
In the depicted setup:
(a) The bare metal is not a part of GCP Cloud per se (but is hosted closer to it - as articulated in Google blog), I suppose it complies with Oracle's "authorized cloud environments" policy - i.e. it is not on a public cloud but effectively hosted on a bare metal server akin to an on-prem hosting.
(b) Given that it is in a colo setup as articulated in the Google blog, it is still falls in the definition of the conditions mandated by 1380654 ("single infrastructure vendor" specific box you've highlighted).
Given that the hosting apparently would satisfy (a) and (b) mandates above from Oracle and SAP respectively, it does sit on a thin line as far as interpretations are involved, but I'd still think this is something that SAP should review to help scores of SAP customers running their workloads against Oracle.
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