Provision Autonomous Database

Follow these steps to provision a new Autonomous Database instance using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console.

Perform the following prerequisite steps as necessary:

Open the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console by clicking the next to Oracle Cloud.
From the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure left navigation menu click Oracle Database and then, depending on your workload click one of: Autonomous Data Warehouse, Autonomous JSON Database, or Autonomous Transaction Processing.
Choose your region. See Switching Regions for information on switching regions and working in multiple regions.
Choose your Compartment. See Compartments for information on using and managing compartments.

On the Autonomous Databases page, perform the following steps:

Click Create Autonomous Database.
Provide basic information for the Autonomous Database.
- Compartment. See Compartments for information on using and managing compartments.
- Display name Specify a user-friendly description or other information that helps you easily identify the resource. The display name does not have to be unique.
  
  The default display name is a generated 16-character string that matches the default database name.
- Database name Specify the database name; it must consist of letters and numbers only. The maximum length is 30 characters. The same database name cannot be used for multiple Autonomous Databases in the same tenancy in the same region.
  
  The default database name is a generated 16-character string that matches the default display name.
Choose a workload type. Select the workload type for your database from the choices:
- Data Warehouse
- Transaction Processing
- JSON
- APEX
Choose a deployment type.
- Serverless
  Run Autonomous Database on serverless architecture.
- Dedicated Infrastructure
  Run Autonomous Database on dedicated Exadata infrastructure.
Select Serverless to create an Autonomous Database Serverless instance.

See Create an Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure for steps to create your instance on dedicated Exadata infrastructure.
Configure the database (ECPU compute model)
- Always Free: Select to show Always Free options.
  
  You can only create a free instance in the tenancy's Home region.
- Choose database version: Select the database version. The available database version is 19c.
  
  With Always Free selected, the available database versions are: 19c and 21c.
- ECPU count: Specify the number of CPUs for your database. The minimum value is 2.
  
  Your license type determines the ECPU count maximum. For example, if your license type is Bring your own license (BYOL) with Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE), the ECPU count maximum is 32.
- Compute auto scaling: By default compute auto scaling is enabled to allow the system to automatically use up to three times more CPU and IO resources to meet workload demand. If you do not want to use compute auto scaling then deselect this option.
  
  See Use Auto Scaling for more information.
- Storage: Specify the storage you wish to make available to your database. Depending on your workload type you have these options:
  - Data Warehouse: Specify your storage in Terabytes (TB).
  - Transaction Processing: Specify your storage in Gigabytes (GB) or Terabytes (TB). Enter the size in the Storage field. Select GB or TB for the Storage unit size.
- By default, the IO capacity of your database depends on the number of ECPUs you provision. When you provision 384 TB of storage, your database is entitled to the full IO capacity of the Exadata infrastructure, independent of the number of ECPUs you provision.
  
  If you want to provision more than 384 TB of storage, file a Service Request at Oracle Cloud Support.
- Storage auto scaling: By default storage auto scaling is disabled. Select if you want to enable storage auto scaling to allow the system to automatically expand to use up to three times more storage.
  
  See Use Auto Scaling for more information.
- Show advanced options: Click to show the compute model options or if you want to create or join an elastic pool:
  - Enable elastic pool:
    
    See Create or Join a Resource Pool While Provisioning or Cloning an Instance for more information.
  - Compute model: Shows the selected compute model.
    
    Click Change compute model to change the compute model. After you select a different compute model, click Save.
    - ECPU
      Use the ECPU compute model for Autonomous Database. ECPUs are based on the number of cores elastically allocated from a pool of compute and storage servers.
    - OCPU
      Use the legacy OCPU compute model if your tenancy is using the OCPU model and you want to continue using OCPUs. The OCPU compute model is based on physical core of a processor with hyper threading enabled.
      
      Note:
      OCPU is a legacy billing metric and has been retired for Autonomous Data Warehouse (Data Warehouse workload type) and Autonomous Transaction Processing (Transaction Processing workload type). Oracle recommends using ECPUs for all new and existing Autonomous Database deployments. See Oracle Support Document 2998742.1 for more information.
    See also Compute Models in Autonomous Database.
Backup retention

Automatic backup retention period in days You have the option to select the automatic backup retention period, in a range from 1 to 60 days. You can restore and recover your database to any point-in-time in this retention period.

This option is not available with the OCPU compute model.

See About Backup and Recovery on Autonomous Database for more information.
Create administrator credentials. Set the password for the Autonomous Database Admin user.
- Username This is a read only field.
- Password Set the password for the Autonomous Database Admin user.
- Confirm password Enter the same password again to confirm your new password.
The password must meet the strong password complexity criteria based on Oracle Cloud security standards. For more information on the password complexity rules, see About User Passwords on Autonomous Database.
Choose network access

Note:
After you provision your Autonomous Database you can change the network access option you select for the instance.
- Secure access from everywhere
  
  By default, secure connections are allowed from everywhere.
- Secure access from allowed IPs and VCNs only
  
  This option restricts connections to the database according to the access control lists (ACLs) you specify. To add multiple ACLs for the Autonomous Database, click Add access control rule.
  
  See Configure Access Control Lists When You Provision or Clone an Instance for more information.
- Private endpoint access only
  
  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.
Choose license and Oracle Database edition
- License included
  
  The default is the license included license type. With this option you subscribe to new database software licenses and the database cloud service.
- Switch to Bring your own license (BYOL)
  
  Select this to show more license options. Select this if your organization already owns Oracle Database software licenses and you want to bring your existing database software licenses to the database cloud service. See Cloud pricing for information on Bring your own license (BYOL) and other licensing options for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cloud service pricing.
  
  When you select to switch to Bring your own license (BYOL), you also select an Oracle Database edition. The Oracle Database edition you select is based on the license you bring to Autonomous Database and changes the maximum value that you can select for the ECPU count. The choices are:
  - Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE): For this license type the maximum allowed value for ECPU count is 512, however you may contact your Oracle account team to request more ECPUs. With compute auto scaling enabled you can use up to ECPU count x 3 ECPUs. For example, if you set the ECPU count to 512, you can use up to 1,536 ECPUs.
  - Oracle Database Standard Edition (SE): For this license type the maximum allowed value for ECPU count is 32. With compute auto scaling enabled you can use up to ECPU count x 3 ECPUs. This license restricts the number of ECPUs you can use to a maximum of 32 ECPUs, with or without compute auto scaling enabled.
    
    See Use Auto Scaling for more information.
(Optional) Provide contacts for operational notifications and announcements

Click Add contact and in the Contact email field, enter a valid email address. To enter multiple Contact email addresses, repeat the process to add up to 10 customer contact emails.

See View and Manage Customer Contacts for Operational Issues and Announcements for more information.
(Optional) Click Show advanced options to select advanced options.
- Encryption key
  Encrypt using an Oracle-managed key: By default Autonomous Database uses Oracle-managed encryption keys. Using Oracle-managed keys, Autonomous Database creates and manages the encryption keys that protect your data and Oracle handles rotation of the TDE master key.
  
  Encrypt using a customer-managed key in this tenancy: If you this option, a master encryption key from a Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault in the same tenancy is used to generate the TDE master key on Autonomous Database.
  
  Encrypt using a customer-managed key located in a remote tenancy: If you this option, a master encryption key in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vault located in a remote tenancy is used to generate the TDE master key on Autonomous Database.
  
  See Use Customer-Managed Encryption Keys on Autonomous Database for more information.
- Maintenance
  Patch level By default the patch level is Regular. Select Early to configure the instance with the early patch level. Note: you cannot change the patch level after you provision an instance.
  
  See Set the Patch Level for more information.
- Management
  Choose a character set and a national character set for your database.
  
  See Choose a Character Set for Autonomous Database for more information.
- Tools
  If you want to view or customize the tools configuration, select the tools tab.
  
  See Configure Autonomous Database Built-in Tools when you Provision or Clone an Instance for more information.
- Tags
  If you want to use Tags, enter the Tag key and Tag value. Tagging is a metadata system that allows you to organize and track resources within your tenancy. Tags are composed of keys and values which can be attached to resources.
  
  See Tagging Overview for more information.
Optionally, you can save the resource configuration as a stack by clicking Save as Stack. You can then use the stack to create the resource through the Resource Manager service.
Enter the following details on the Save as Stack dialog, and click Save.
- Name: Optionally, enter a name for the stack.
- Description: Optionally, enter a description for this stack.
- Save in compartment: Select a compartment where this Stack will reside.
- Tag namespace, Tag key, and Tag value: Optionally, apply tags to the stack.
For requirements and recommendations for Terraform configurations used with Resource Manager, see Terraform Configurations for Resource Manager. To provision the resources defined in your stack, apply the configuration.
Click Create Autonomous Database.

On the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure console the Lifecycle State shows Provisioning until the new database is available.

Parent topic: Lifecycle Operations