Manage users and privileges in Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle with Multitenant option

Oracle Multitenant feature is available in Oracle database from 12cR1 (12.1.0.1) and later. This enables customers to use multiple PDBs in a single Oracle database, facilitating better manageability and consolidation of environments. In Oracle Multitenant architecture, there are various user management approaches available that can be used to create and manage user accounts in the container database (CDB) and PDBs. In this post we discuss the options for managing users and how they can be set up and used for different scenarios.