Now, world's first autonomous database cloud service

Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on Wednesday announced the availability of the first service based on the revolutionary new Oracle Autonomous Database.

The world's first self-managing, self-securing, self-repairing database cloud service, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, uses machine learning to deliver industry-leading performance, security capabilities, and availability with no human intervention, at half the cost of Amazon Web Services.

"This technology changes everything," said Ellison.

"The Oracle Autonomous Database is based on technology as revolutionary as the Internet. It patches, tunes, and updates itself. Amazon's databases cost more and do less," Ellison added.

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud delivers all of the analytical capabilities, security features, and high availability of the Oracle Database without any of the complexities of configuration, tuning, and administration - even as warehousing workloads and data volumes change.

The autonomous database is an entirely new class of offering, which requires zero operational administration on the customer's part, enabling cloud data warehousing that is easy, fast, and elastic.

The industry's first one-step warehouse provisioning spins up a secure data warehouse with automatic backup, encryption, and a high availability architecture in mere seconds. Migration to cloud is simple due to full compatibility with existing on-premises databases.

The Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is so fast that Oracle guarantees the same workload at half the cost of Amazon Web Services.

Further, the ability to dynamically grow or shrink resources enables true pay-per-use, dramatically lowering costs.

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud is the first of many Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud services.

Other services in development include Oracle Autonomous Database for Transaction Processing, Oracle Autonomous NoSQL Database for fast, massive-scale reads and writes (commonly demanded by the Internet of Things), and Oracle Autonomous Graph Database for network analysis.