Oracle Autonomous Database Licensing in the Cloud

What is Oracle’s autonomous database? Where is it available and how can you consume and license this Oracle cloud service? All these questions will be addressed at a high level in this blog post.

What is Oracle Autonomous Database?

Oracle’s autonomous database is a fully automated database. It is a cloud native database technology that utilizes all of Oracle’s most advanced database technology to ease development and deployment of application.

It is only available on Oracle Cloud (OCI) or Exadata Cloud at Customer.

Licensing Autonomous Database in the Cloud

License included – This is where you pay for the service and everything is included and you don’t have to pay attention to licensing.

Bring Your Own License (BYOL) – here you get a discounted rate on the service as you are bringing your own licenses. All licenses that you bring in must be under support.

License Included

Besides all the options and features included by default (native to the autonomous database) you have access to all what Oracle has to offer:

Shared

Multitenant – included by default
Transparent Database Encryption – included by default
Reap Application Cluster – included by default
Partitioning, Advanced Security, Advanced Compression, Label Security, Database Vault, Autonomous Data Guard

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