Want to quickly provision your autonomous database? Then look no further than Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless, one of the two deployment choices offered by Oracle Autonomous Database.   Autonomous Database Serverless delegates all operational decisions to Oracle, providing you with a completely autonomous experience.   Join hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Oracle Database experts, as they discuss how serverless infrastructure eliminates the need to configure any hardware or install any software because Autonomous Database handles provisioning the database, backing it up, patching and upgrading it, and growing or shrinking it for you.   Oracle Autonomous Database Episode: https://oracleuniversitypodcast.libsyn.com/oracle-autonomous-database Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Rajeev Grover, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   --------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript:   00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started. 00:26 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I’m Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor. Nikita: Hi everyone! Welcome back to a new season of the Oracle University Podcast. This time, our focus is going to be on Oracle Autonomous Database. We’ve got a jam-packed season planned with some very special guests joining us. 00:52 Lois: If you’re a regular listener of the podcast, you’ll remember that we’d spoken a bit about Autonomous Database last year. That was a really good introductory episode so if you missed it, you might want to check it out.  Nikita: Yeah, we’ll post a link to the episode in today’s show notes so you can find it easily. 01:07 Lois: Right, Niki. So, for today’s episode, we wanted to focus on Autonomous Database on Serverless Infrastructure and we reached out to three experts in the field: Hannah Nguyen,  Sean Stacey, and Kay Malcolm. Hannah is an Associate Cloud Engineer, Sean, a Director of Platform Technology Solutions, and Kay, who’s been on the podcast before, is Senior Director of Database Product Management. For this episode, we’ll be sharing portions of our conversations with them. So, let’s get started. 01:38 Nikita: Hi Hannah! How does Oracle Cloud handle the process of provisioning an Autonomous Database?   Hannah: The Oracle Cloud automates the process of provisioning an Autonomous Database, and it automatically provisions for you a highly scalable, highly secure, and a highly available database very simply out of the box. 01:56 Lois: Hannah, what are the components and architecture involved when provisioning an Autonomous Database in Oracle Cloud? Hannah: Provisioning the database involves very few steps. But it's important to understand the components that are part of the provisioned environment. When provisioning a database, the number of CPUs in increments of 1 for serverless, storage in increments of 1 terabyte, and backup are automatically provisioned and enabled in the database. In the background, an Oracle 19c pluggable database is being added to the container database that manages all the user's Autonomous Databases. Because this Autonomous Database runs on Exadata systems, Real Application Clusters is also provisioned in the background to support the on-demand CPU scalability of the service. This is transparent to the user and administrator of the service. But be aware it is there. 02:49 Nikita: Ok…So, what sort of flexibility does the Autonomous Database provide