Also Introduces Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud that has Demonstrated Performance of 10x Faster at Half the Cost of Amazon At Oracle OpenWorld 2017, Oracle Chairman of the Board and CTO Larry Ellison unveiled his vision for the world's first autonomous database cloud. Powered by Oracle Database 18c, the next generation of the industry-leading database, Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud uses ground-breaking machine learning to enable automation that eliminates human labor, human error and manual tuning, to enable unprecedented availability, high performance and security at a much lower cost. "This is the most important thing we've done in a long, long time," said Ellison. "The automation does everything. We can guarantee availability of 99.995 percent, less than 30 minutes of planned or unplanned downtime."