Free Autonomous Database – now with free training and certification
Oracle Autonomous Database is an all-in-one cloud database solution for all data management workloads. It eliminates the complexity of operating and securing Oracle Database, while providing the highest levels of performance, scalability, and availability.
Always Free services for Oracle Autonomous Database make it much easier to build, test and deploy cloud database instances without any time constraints.
Developers, DBAs, data analysts, and data engineers can now get a complete cloud database experience for free — without worrying about losing their work. Whether you are evaluating cloud databases for an upcoming project, needing a free database for a small project, or learning to build new skills, we have simplified the “getting started” process.
Always Free services for Oracle Autonomous Database provide unlimited time use of –
- Two Oracle Autonomous Databases total, each with 1OCPU and 20GB storage. You can choose Autonomous Transaction Processing, Autonomous Data Warehouse, Autonomous JSON Database, or APEX Application development.
- Two AMD-based Compute VMs with 1/8 OCPU and 1 GB memory each.
- Up to 4 instances of Ampere Arm A1 Compute
- Block, Object, and Archive Storage; Load Balancer and data egress; Monitoring and Notifications
- In addition, get US$300 in credit and try a wide range of Oracle Cloud services for 30 days for free

Using Oracle’s Always Free program, Wilson’s Truck Lines whipped up an application instance in just 30 minutes. Then, using the Oracle Application Express (APEX) low-code development environment and Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, in only two days the team built a pilot application that was equivalent to the one that had taken months to build with AWS.

With the following hands-on labs, you can quickly try various capabilities and learn the basics of Autonomous Database:
- Quickly load and transform data to generate insights
- Build low-code applications
- Build models using in-database machine learning
- Build graph analytics
- Build spatial analytics
- Easily migrate databases to Autonomous Database
Once you have learned to deploy and administer Autonomous Databases, you can get free certification and become an Autonomous Database Specialist.
With Always Free you don’t have to worry about an unexpected bill. You must explicitly upgrade to a paid account. If you just want the Always Free databases, you don’t have to upgrade.
If you want to test out the paid level of services in addition to Always Free, there’s a free 30-day trial period with $300 of credits, but anything you create is deleted at the end of the trial if you decide not to upgrade. Existing Oracle Cloud customers have access to Always Free services automatically—no new sign up is required.
With Autonomous Database you can use a single database for all types of data and workloads, while reducing the costs of managing, securing, and maintaining your databases. We hope you enjoy Always Free services for Autonomous Database, and look forward to your success
Additional Resources
- oracle.com/autonomous-database
- Autonomous Database Free
- Documentation
- Customer case studies
- White papers and reports
