Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai, Oracle's latest Long Term Support Release, with Amazon Bedrock integration which provides access to foundation models such as Anthropic Claude, Amazon Nova, and Meta Llama. With Oracle Database 26ai, you can leverage Oracle's Select AI feature to generate and run SQL queries from natural language prompts, increasing productivity for both developers and business users. You can also implement retrieval augmented generation (RAG) directly from SQL using Oracle AI Vector Search without moving data out of their database.

Oracle Database 26ai also includes AI Vector Search for storing vector embeddings alongside relational data and performing semantic similarity and hybrid searches without a separate vector database, JSON Relational Duality Views for accessing the same underlying data as either JSON documents or relational tables, and SQL Property Graphs for in-database graph analytics. You can create new DB instances running Oracle Database 26ai or upgrade from Oracle Database 19c or 21c container databases (CDBs). Oracle Database 26ai is available in Enterprise Edition only. To create a new Oracle Database 26ai instance, use the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK and select an Oracle 26.0.0.0 engine version. To upgrade existing Oracle Database 19c or 21c CDB instances, use the Modify DB Instance workflow and select a 26.0.0.0 engine version. If your DB instance runs Oracle Database 19c as a non-CDB, you must first convert it to the CDB architecture before upgrading to 26ai. For more information, see Converting a non-CDB to a CDB.

Amazon RDS for Oracle Database 26ai is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For more information, see Oracle Database 26ai with Amazon RDS and Amazon Bedrock integration for RDS for Oracle.