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What it does
OCI DNS manages DNS zones and records and handles domain queries through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s edge network.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Free plan
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Integrations
Oracle documents using OCI DNS zones with Kubernetes ExternalDNS to manage DNS across multiple environments.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
Access methods
OCI DNS is accessible through the browser-based Console, REST API, and OCI CLI; Oracle also lists SDKs for OCI.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Account requirement
OCI DNS requires a paid OCI account under a pay-as-you-go or Universal Credits contract.Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com
DNSSEC
DNSSEC provides cryptographic authentication of lookup responses on public zones, but it does not encrypt DNS responses and is not supported on private zones.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Identity and access
OCI DNS uses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure IAM for authentication and authorization across the Console, SDK or CLI, and REST API.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Load balancing and failover
Steering policies can distribute traffic using equal or custom weights and direct queries to secondary answers when a primary answer is unhealthy.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Primary and secondary DNS
OCI DNS supports primary authoritative zones and secondary zones for redundancy.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Public and private DNS
The service supports publicly reachable zones and private hostname resolution for applications within and between virtual cloud networks.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Service limits
OCI DNS is limited to 1000 zones per account, 25,000 records per zone, and zone file uploads of 1 MB; public DNS zones are supported only in the OC1 commercial realm.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Support and metrics
Oracle documents DNS metrics for query counts and zone transfers, and directs customers exceeding zone or record limits to Oracle Support.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Traffic Management limit
Traffic Management is limited to 100 policies and 1,000 attachments per tenant and is available for public DNS, not private DNS.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com
Traffic steering
Traffic Management can steer public DNS queries by endpoint health, geographic location, ASN, or originating IP prefix.Read 12 Oct 2026 · docs.oracle.com

Plans and prices

OCI DNS Priced on request Per 1,000,000 queries; listed price is $1.11401 per 1,000,000 queries. 1000 zones per account · 25,000 records per zone · 1 MB per zone file Read 12 Oct 2026 · oracle.com

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