Autonomous Database is Oracle's fully managed cloud database service. It provides automated operations including provisioning, tuning, patching and backup. Autonomous Database can be deployed in serverless or dedicated modes. Serverless provides elastic scaling on shared infrastructure, while dedicated runs on a customer's dedicated Exadata cloud service. Both support Autonomous Data Warehouse and Autonomous Transaction Processing databases. Autonomous Database handles all database administration tasks, allowing users to focus on running SQL queries without managing infrastructure.