You simply want to USE a database and not maintain it? Use Autonomous Transaction Processing!
Pros
- One click deploy
- Self-maintaining
- Scalability of CPUs on demand on the fly
- Additional storage on demand on the fly
- Backups without interruption
Cons
- Connectivity between ATP and Oracle Kuberentes Engine cluster seems to drop randomly
- The ATP could come in an even smaller shape as the smallest shape is already quite big . But if must be more than always free, as that version does have connectivity limitations about 20 connections
Return on Investment
- Approx 100 times faster spin up than manual setup of an Oracle DB
- 3h annual maintenance for big version releases (18c to 19c) compared to est. 500h annual maintenance with manual database updates







