Generally, the access token for provisioning an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Process Automation instance is prefetched for users that sign in to tenancies using identity domains or federated Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) stripes. However, in some cases users may need to manually create the access token for provisioning an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Process Automation instance.

Create an access token to provision a Process Automation instance in the following scenarios:

• Your tenancy uses identity domain, but the home region of the identity domain with which you have signed in is different from the region in which you want to create the Process Automation instance. See Create an Access Token in a Tenancy That Uses Identity Domain.
• Your tenancy uses federated IDCS stripe, but the home region of the federated stripe with which you have signed in is different from the region in which you want to create the Process Automation instance. See Create an Access Token in a Tenancy That Do Not Use Identity Domain.
• Your tenancy does not use identity domain, and you have signed in with direct sign-in option (not with federated IDCS stripe) using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (IAM). See Create an Access Token in a Tenancy That Do Not Use Identity Domain.
• You want to create a Process Automation instance by using Process Automation control plane REST APIs.