If you terminate an FDI instance in OCI, can you recover it without recreating?

• A. Yes, you can recover from a last known good snapshot.
• B. No, you can't recover a terminated instance; you must recreate the instance and then restore it.
• C. Only if you had a backup stored in a different region.
• D. You can request Oracle support to undelete the instance.

Answer: (B)

Terminating an FDI instance is a destructive action that removes the instance and its attached storage; there’s no way to undelete the exact terminated resource. To get back to a running environment, you must recreate the FDI instance and then restore data and configuration from backups or snapshots you prepared beforehand. So recovery relies on using those backup artifacts to bootstrap a new instance rather than recovering the old one.

If you have a boot-volume or instance backup, you can use that to restore the new instance’s state, but you wouldn’t be “recovered” from the terminated instance itself. Oracle support cannot undelete a terminated compute instance.