Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

What’s New for Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless

Here’s a summary of the noteworthy Oracle Autonomous AI Database additions and enhancements.

See Previous Feature Announcements for 2025 announcements and older announcements.

Parent topic: Overview

January 2026

Feature Description
Select AI Proxy Integration

Use an Autonomous AI Database as a Select AI Proxy to securely integrate with Oracle and non-Oracle databases and bring natural language queries to these databases by routing requests through Autonomous AI Database.

For more details, see Use Autonomous AI Database as an AI Proxy for Select AI.

Monitoring Metrics for OCI Autonomous AI Database

Resource utilization metrics are available for monitoring Autonomous AI Databases.

For more details, see Available Metrics: oci_autonomous_database.

Incremental refresh of materialized views over Cloud Links

With incremental refresh of materialized views over Cloud Links, the Autonomous AI Database refreshes only changed data from remote tables instead of recomputing the entire materialized view. The MV_FAST_REFRESH parameter in the REGISTER and UPDATE_REGISTRATION procedures of the DBMS_CLOUD_LINK package enables providers to explicitly support fast refresh for cloud links. This fast refresh capability improves dashboard and report performance and provides real-time analytics.

For more details, see Optimize Cloud Links Performance with Materialized Views.

Online restart option for Autonomous AI Database

Oracle Autonomous AI Database provides two restart options: a standard Restart, and an Online restart that reduces downtime. With Online restart, the Autonomous AI Database instance is restarted with minimal impact on database availability.

For more details, see Restart Autonomous AI Database

Improved Outbound Connection options for Private Endpoints

When you define a private endpoint for your Autonomous AI Database instance you can provide enhanced security by setting a database property to enforce that all outgoing connections to a target host are subject to and limited by the private endpoint's egress rules.

For more details, see Enhanced Security for Outbound Connections with Private Endpoints.

Support cloud link sharing with MY$POOL scope in Elastic Pool.

With MY$POOL scope in cloud links, you can register datasets once in a provider Autonomous AI Database, making them discoverable and queryable from any other Autonomous AI Database in the same Elastic Pool. Scope checks are enforced on the consumer side to ensure proper access control.

See Grant Cloud Links Access for Database Users for more information.