Oracle today announced the general availability of the first Oracle Database@Azure service is coming in December. Oracle will operate and manage Oracle Exadata Database Service, the first of several planned Oracle database services to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Microsoft Azure, from Microsoft’s U.S. East datacenter region. It will deliver all the performance, scale, and workload availability advantages of Oracle Exadata Database Service including Real Application Clusters and built-in security, alongside best-in-class Azure services, including Azure OpenAI Service.

Oracle Exadata Database Service will help simplify cloud migration and multicloud deployment for businesses that run many applications on-premises. Oracle Exadata Database Service is part of Oracle Database@Azure, a new offering that gives customers direct access to Oracle database services running on OCI and deployed in Azure datacenters.

“Exadata is the most effective platform to run Oracle Database and this provides Microsoft Azure users with the best of all possible worlds,” said Carl Olofson, research vice president, Data Management Software, IDC. “Clearly, Oracle and Azure have embraced a true multicloud strategy for the ultimate benefit of their mutual customers.”

Due to strong demand, Oracle plans to expand Oracle Database@Azure into other global regions in CY24. Each deployment will run across two Azure availability zones, enabling customers to configure high availability across zones. Customers will benefit from:

• More options to move their Oracle databases to the cloud;
• The highest level of Oracle database performance, scale, and availability, as well as feature and pricing parity with OCI;
• The simplicity, security, and latency of a single operating environment (datacenter) within Azure;
• The ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including Azure OpenAI Service;
• Streamlined migration to the cloud, where it is easier to modernize IT environments and take advantage of Azure’s infrastructure, tooling, and services;
• Unified customer support from Oracle and Microsoft;
• Simplified purchasing via the Azure Marketplace, and ability to leverage Oracle and Microsoft licenses and commitments/discount programs;
• The assurance of an architecture that is tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in the cloud.

“Some researchers estimate that upwards of 70 percent of workloads have not yet moved to the cloud,” said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Oracle and Microsoft are making it simpler for customers in every sector to migrate their Oracle databases to the cloud by running Oracle Exadata hardware on OCI in Microsoft Azure datacenters. Together, we’re eliminating some of the biggest challenges our customers face to adopting multicloud architectures.”

“We’ve received tremendous interest in Oracle Database@Azure over the last month,” said Erin Chapple, corporate vice president, Azure Core Product and Design, Microsoft. “Oracle Database@Azure gives customers with significant Oracle estates, no matter the industry, more choice to move their business-critical applications to the cloud where they can combine the best of Oracle and Azure services to empower business innovation.”

Additional Resources

• Learn more about Oracle Database@Azure
• Learn more about Oracle database services, Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Base Database Service