Oracle’s 23AI Autonomous Database is available for free, also giving developers and businesses the power to create and deploy scalable applications with ease. Whether you’re an experienced developer or just getting started, you can leverage Oracle APEX to build low-code applications without worrying about infrastructure management.
Why Choose Oracle 23Ai Autonomous Database?
- Completely Free – Start building your applications without any cost(Resource Limit apply).
- Fully Managed – No need to worry about database administration.
- AI-Powered Features – Leverage AI capabilities for data insights.
- Built-in Oracle APEX – Rapidly develop secure, scalable applications.
Lets Start the Oracle Free cloud Journey
First Step is to Create a free Oracle Cloud account, follow steps mentioned on below link. For an autonomous database follow step 5 then continue autonomous database creation.
Lets start creating our autonomous database. From Menu select Oracle Database and select Autonomous Database
Click on Create Autonomus Database
Provide Apex Database details, and select 23ai database and follow the steps as per the screenshots
If your Always Free Autonomous Database has no activity for 7 consecutive days, the database will be automatically stopped. Your data will be preserved, and you can restart the database to continue using it. If the database remains stopped for 3 months, it will be reclaimed.
Now click on the Tool Configuration and copy the URL mentioned in the Access column
Provide the password given at the time of database creation, Proceed to create a workspace admin and then create a user for creating the application by following the below screenshots
Login with the new creadetnails to create your first application, here we are going to create a sample application that is already available on Apex
Install the application , here choose Sampe Workflow
Once application is installed go the the Click on App Builder and select the Application Sample Workflow. Click the Play ► Button to launch the application
Conclusion
Experience your first APEX application running on the world’s best database, Oracle 23ai Autonomous Cloud—absolutely free to learn and explore! Discover cost-effective and flexible pricing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), or leverage APEX on-premises as a no-cost, fully supported feature of Oracle Database. Oracle APEX offers simple, consumption-based pricing that includes all the infrastructure needed to develop and run your low-code apps. You only pay for the compute and storage consumed by your APEX apps—no charges based on the number of users, developers, or applications.”
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