About Network Access Options

Provides an overview of the network access options available when you provision or clone Autonomous Database.

Note:

For all of these options connections to your Autonomous Database use certificate-based authentication and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

When you provision or clone your Autonomous Database you specify one of the following network access options:

  • Allow secure access from everywhere: This option assigns a public endpoint, public IP and hostname, to your database. With this selection you have two options:

    • The database is accessible from all IP addresses: this is the default option when you provision or clone Autonomous Database.

    • Select Configure access control rules: This option lets you restrict access by defining access control rules in an Access Control List (ACL). By specifying an ACL, the database will be accessible from a whitelisted set of IP addresses or VCNs.

    If you configure your database with the Allow secure access from everywhere option, you can add, modify, or remove ACLs after you provision or clone the database.

    See Overview of Restricting Access with ACLs for more information.

  • Virtual cloud network: This option assigns a private endpoint, private IP, and hostname to your database. Specifying this option allows traffic only from the VCN you specify; access to the database from all public IPs or VCNs is blocked. This allows you to define security rules, ingress/egress, at the Network Security Group (NSG) level and to control traffic to your Autonomous Database.

    See Configure Private Endpoints When You Provision or Clone an Instance for more information.



Note:

After you provision or clone your database, you can change the selection you make, to either Allow secure access from everywhere or Virtual cloud network for the database instance.

See Change from Public to Private Endpoints with Autonomous Database for more information.

See Change from Private to Public Endpoints with Autonomous Database for more information.