1 What's New in Recovery Service

Learn about the new features in Recovery Service.

• Protect on-premises Oracle Databases with Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Cloud Protect
  
• Recovery Service now supports Oracle Database@AWS
  
• Create long-term retention backups with Recovery Service
  
• Multicloud Database Backup Support
  
• Support for Network Security Groups (NSG)
  
• Create a Protected Database in a Dry-Run Mode
  
• Retention Lock for Protected Database Backups
  
• Delayed Deletion of Protected Database Resources and Database Backups
  
• Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service is Now Available
  

Protect on-premises Oracle Databases with Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Cloud Protect

• Service: Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service
• Release Date: October 09, 2025

Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Cloud Protect is now available.

Protect on-premises Oracle Databases using Oracle Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service deployed in OCI. This new feature provides real-time transaction protection, logically air-gapped immutable backups, and enables fast, point-in-time recovery to any location.

Recovery Service now supports Oracle Database@AWS

• Service: Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service
• Release Date: October 08, 2025

Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service adds support for Oracle Database@AWS.

Create long-term retention backups with Recovery Service

• Service: Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service
• Release Date: January 23, 2025

You can now create a long-term retention (LTR) backup of your database with Autonomous Recovery Service and retain the backup for up to 10 years. LTR backups are stored in the Object Storage Infrequent Access tier. You can restore an LTR backup to create a new database within the retention period.

Multicloud Database Backup Support

• Service: Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service
• Release Date: September 09, 2024

Autonomous Recovery Service now supports Oracle Multicloud Databases such as Oracle Database@Azure and Oracle Database@Google Cloud. Recovery Service also provides the option to store the backups in the same cloud location as the database.

If you enable the Store backups in the same cloud provider as the database option for a protection policy and choose this policy for automatic backups to Recovery Service, then the database backups will be stored in the same cloud provider where the database resides. For example, for Oracle Database@Azure, Recovery Service stores the backups in Azure if you have selected the Store backups in the same cloud provider as the database option in the chosen protection policy.

Support for Network Security Groups (NSG)

• Service: Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service
• Release Date: May 01, 2024

You can now optionally use network security groups (NSGs) to implement the security rules that control the inbound and outbound traffic between your Oracle Database and Recovery Service. In the OCI console, you can use options to add a Recovery Service subnet to the Recovery Service NSGs configured in the database VCN.

Create a Protected Database in a Dry-Run Mode

• Service: Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service
• Release Date: October 18, 2023

You can perform a dry run of the CreateProtectedDatabase API to verify that you meet all the prerequisites before creating a protected database. A dry run request returns error messages identifying the missing requirements and also indicates the recommended action to fulfill each requirement.

Retention Lock for Protected Database Backups

• Service: Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service
• Release Date: October 18, 2023

You can now enforce a lock for the backup retention period defined in a protection policy. When a retention lock is in effect, Recovery Service prohibits the modification or deletion of backups during the specified duration. The retention lock feature helps to protect your database backups from accidental or malicious damages such as ransomware.

Delayed Deletion of Protected Database Resources and Database Backups

• Service: Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service
• Release Date: October 18, 2023

Protected databases now have a new lifecycle state called Delete Scheduled.

A protected database resource enters the Delete Scheduled state after you terminate the source database or if you disable its automatic backups. Recovery Service delays the deletion of the protected database resource and the database backups for 72 hours, or until the backup retention period ends. This feature provides you an opportunity to recover data even after you terminate a database.

Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service is Now Available

• Service: Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service
• Release Date: February 15, 2023

Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service is a fully managed data protection service for Oracle databases running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Unique, automated capabilities protect Oracle Database changes in real time, validate backups without production database overhead, and enable fast, predictable recovery to any point in time. Low costs based on the amount of data being protected mean that zero data loss resiliency is available to organizations of any size and virtually any budget.