Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Stop Autonomous Database

Describes the steps to stop an Autonomous Database instance.

Perform the following prerequisite steps as necessary:

  • Open the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console by clicking the navigation icon 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.

  • On the Autonomous Databases page select an Autonomous Database from the links under the Display name column.

  1. On the Details page, from the More actions drop-down list, select Stop.
  2. Click Stop to confirm.

    When concurrent operations such as scaling are active, the confirmation also confirms either pausing or canceling the concurrent operation. See Concurrent Operations on Autonomous Database for more information.

Notes for a stopped Autonomous Database instance:

  • Autonomous Database Tools are no longer able to connect to a stopped instance.

  • Autonomous Database in-flight transactions and queries are stopped.

  • Autonomous Database CPU billing is halted.

  • When an Autonomous Database remains stopped for over 7 days it may take a few minutes or longer to start up, depending on the size of the database. To avoid this extra startup time, Oracle recommends starting your Autonomous Database instance once every 7 days.

Parent topic: Lifecycle Operations