This document provides instructions for creating an autonomous Oracle database instance on Oracle Cloud and notes some key findings about the service. To create an instance, the user selects ADWS under create instance, enters details on the next pages, and the instance is immediately backed up once created. Some key aspects of the autonomous database service are that Oracle 18c software is made autonomous through hardware and optimizations, scaling can be done without outages, database administrators have no direct access or control, and datafiles use ACFS storage instead of ASM disk groups.