Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai, the latest Long Term Support release, featuring native integration with Amazon Bedrock for foundation models like Claude and Llama. New capabilities include Oracle Select AI for generating SQL from natural language prompts and AI Vector Search for storing embeddings alongside relational data. This allows for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and hybrid semantic searches directly within the database without moving data to a separate vector store.
- Oracle Database 26ai is now available on Amazon RDS for Oracle as an LTS release.
- Select AI enables SQL generation and execution via natural language prompts.
- AI Vector Search allows embedding storage and hybrid search without external databases.
- RAG implementation is supported directly from SQL using Oracle's vector capabilities.
- Bedrock integration provides access to models like Anthropic Claude, Amazon Nova, and Meta Llama.
Fleet impact: For Oracle ExaCC/RAC and Amazon RDS for Oracle fleets, this update introduces native vector search and natural language SQL generation, reducing the need for external vector databases. Plan to evaluate Select AI for developer productivity and audit the new Bedrock model integrations for security and compliance before enabling in production.