Provisioning and basic management functions for an Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless instance is done from the Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure blade. Additional management functions are available within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) portal available via the link to that Oracle Autonomous Database from the Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure blade.

1. You provision an Oracle Autonomous Database instance from the Microsoft Azure portal. Select the Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure blade.
2. There are two paths to begin the Oracle Autonomous Database instance provisioning flow.
   1. From the Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure application Home, select the Create an Oracle Autonomous Database button.
   2. From the Oracle Autonomous Database blade, select + Create at the top of the blade. The Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure blade shows all your existing Autonomous Databases along with their current status. Selecting a specific Autonomous Database shows you that instance's detailed information.
3. From the Basics tab of the Create Oracle Autonomous Database flow, enter the following information.
   1. The Subscription field is a drop-downs containing the current subscription, plus any other subscriptions that your account can access.
   2. The Resource group field is a drop-down containing the existing resource groups.
   3. To create a new Resource group, select the Create new link.
   4. Enter an Name for your Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless instance. This name must be unique within your subscription.
   5. Select the Region. The current region is automatically selected. If your subscription has access to other regions, those will be available in the drop-down list.
   6. Select Next to continue.
4. From the Configuration tab of the Create Oracle Autonomous Database flow, enter the following information.
   1. The Workload type is a drop-down list that provides all the options for your Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless instance. Select the appropriate option from the list.
   2. The Database version is a drop-down list that allows you to select the options provided by your subscription and the currently supported versions of Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless.
   3. The ECPU count is a slider UI that allows setting the ECPU count from 2 to 512.
   4. The Compute auto scaling checkbox allows you to option for your Oracle Autonomous Database to scale its computing allocation automatically up to 512. By default, this is selected.
   5. Storage is a slider UI that allows setting the Storage allocation from 1 TB to 383 TB or 20 GB to 393216 GB.
   6. The Storage unit size radio button allows you to select whether your storage is allocated in GB or TB.
   7. The Storage auto scaling checkbox allows you to option for your Oracle Autonomous Database to scale its storage allocation automatically up to 383 TB or 393216 GB. By default, this is unselected.
   8. The Backup retention period in days is a slider UI that allows setting the backup retention days to vary from 1 to 60.
   9. The Username is a read-only field that is set to ADMIN.
   10. Enter a password for your ADMIN account. Passwords must be non-empty, between 12 and 60 characters, and contain at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one number. The password cannot contain the double quote (") character or the username ADMIN.
   11. The Confirm password field must match your previously entered password.
   12. The License type is a drop-down list of available license types, License included and Bring your own license. Select the one that is needed for your subscription.
   13. If you select the Advanced options checkbox, two (2) additional fields will appear, Character set and National character set. These are drop-down lists of the available character set options for your database. If you select the Advanced options checkbox, select the appropriate Character set and National character set for your database.
   14. Select Next to continue.
5. From the Networking tab of the Create Oracle Autonomous Database flow, enter the following information.
   1. Currently, the Access type drop-down only allows you to select Managed private virtual network IP only.
   2. For Managed private virtual network IP only, the Require mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication is unselected by default and can be selected if desired. Additionally, the Virtual network and Subnet drop-downs are required and require you to select from existing resources. NOTE: The selected virtual network must have one subnet delegated to the Oracle.Database/networkAttachments service. For additional information, see Delegate a subnet to an Azure service.
   3. Select Next to continue.
6. From the Maintenance tab of the Create Oracle Autonomous Database flow, enter the following information.
   1. The Maintenance patch level is a read-only field. Your Oracle Autonomous Database will be patched on a regular and as-needed basis. This patching is done in a manner that should be unnoticeable to you. Regular means that the typical patch schedule is applied. For more information, see View Patch and Maintenance Window Information, Set the Patch Level.
   2. You can enter up to 10 contact email addresses for notification of unplanned maintenance events.
   3. Select Next to continue.
7. From the Consent tab of the Create Oracle Autonomous Database flow, review the Oracle terms of use and the Oracle privacy policy. When reviewed, select the I agree to the terms of service checkbox to continue. Select Next to continue.
8. From the Tags tab of the Create Oracle Autonomous Database flow, set one or more tags to enable easier management and tracking of multiple Oracle Autonomous Databases. For more information, see Use tags to organize your Azure resources and management hierarchy. Select Next to continue.
9. From the Review + Create tab of the Create Oracle Autonomous Database flow, check the field values you have entered. Validation occurs as you enter this page, and all validations must pass for the provisioning to be started. Even if the validation passes, you may have incorrectly entered a value or values.
10. Once your validations complete successfully and you have reviewed the values, select the Create button to start the provisioning process.
11. The provisioning process starts. You return to the Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure blade. You can see the status of your provisioning processes. Assuming your process succeeds, select that entry in the list.
12. This is the basic information for your Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless instance. You can perform functions shared with Microsoft Azure. For most administrative functions for the database, select the Go to OCI link under the OCI Database URL field.
13. For the complete documentation on using an Oracle Autonomous Database, see Using Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless.