This weblog is co-authored by Ravi Turlapati, Head of Strategic Merchandise and Development, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

The Microsoft and Oracle partnership is targeted on giving prospects alternative and eradicating the hurdles confronted when migrating mission-critical workloads to the general public cloud the place they’ll entry the wealthy set of expertise wanted to speed up innovation and compete extra successfully. In September, Satya Nadella and Larry Ellison introduced Oracle Database@Azure, a brand new providing that delivers Oracle database providers working on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) inside Azure datacenters and provides prospects extra flexibility in the place they run their workloads.

We’re excited to share that Oracle Database@Azure is mostly out there within the Azure East United States area, with extra areas coming in 2024. Now you can use Oracle database providers working on OCI {hardware} deployed in Azure information facilities. This streamlines the migration of Oracle database workloads to Azure, the place you’ll be able to combine and innovate with the breadth of Microsoft Cloud providers like Azure AI and our utility platform and developer providers. You’ll be capable to buy this Oracle-managed service, working on OCI inside Azure datacenters, from the Azure Market with the identical options and pricing as Oracle Exadata cloud service on OCI. And, you should utilize your present Azure and Oracle commitments, program advantages, and licenses to take action.

Exadata Database Service is the primary service to be out there together with assist for Oracle Actual Software Clusters (RAC), Oracle GoldenGate, and Oracle Information Guard applied sciences. We plan to supply Autonomous Database Service within the close to future. Microsoft Azure is the one hyperscaler apart from OCI to supply these Oracle database providers.

Many shoppers have proven sturdy curiosity within the product, and the Oracle and Microsoft product groups are working diligently to broaden the supply of extra areas in 2024, starting with Germany West Central, Australia East, France Central, Canada Central, Brazil South, Japan East, United Kingdom South, Central United States, and South Central United States. We are going to proceed so as to add extra areas primarily based on buyer demand, and we encourage prospects to share their necessities for extra areas with their Oracle or Microsoft account groups.

The advantages of Oracle databases in Azure

Oracle Database@Azure offers a number of advantages:

• Optimized efficiency and latency: Oracle database providers in Azure are designed to supply excessive ranges of efficiency, scale, safety, and availability. By working OCI databases in Azure datacenters alongside different providers in Azure, you’ll be able to optimize latency and efficiency.
• Streamlined migration: You need to use acquainted and confirmed Oracle options like Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) emigrate Oracle databases as is without having for refactoring functions or databases.
• Software modernization: You need to use the wealthy set of utility providers, growth instruments, and frameworks out there in Azure to modernize your workloads and run cloud native functions with direct entry to information in Oracle Database@Azure, with the identical safety and compliance throughout the whole answer.
• Information and AI innovation: You’ll be able to unlock information insights and innovation while you apply Azure information analytics and AI providers throughout your Oracle and non-Oracle information and functions between assets, and deal with even mission-critical utility.
• Simplified operations: You’ll be able to deploy and handle Oracle Database@Azure infrastructure by means of the Azure portal and use native Azure instruments to view metrics, occasions, and logs for all Oracle Database@Azure databases. You may as well do database provisioning and administration through OCI interfaces together with entry to acquainted tooling like Information Guard, GoldenGate, and others.
• Simplified buying: You should buy Oracle Database@Azure by means of the Azure Market and benefit from present Azure and Oracle commitments and licenses. You’ll even be eligible for Oracle Assist Rewards, a program the place you’ll be able to earn rewards that you should utilize to cut back your Oracle expertise license assist invoice.
• Unified buyer assist: You’ll be able to contact both your Oracle or Microsoft assist staff for a unified assist course of.  

Bringing the ability of Oracle Exadata to Azure prospects

Main organizations in each trade have lengthy relied on Oracle Exadata and Oracle Actual Software Clusters (RAC) to benefit from their information and to energy mission important functions. Oracle Database@Azure prospects could have entry to Oracle RAC for prime availability working on OCI {hardware}. The service shall be deployable in a number of availability zones to make sure regional excessive availability and in cross-region pairs to assist cross-geography catastrophe restoration situations.

Trusted migration and resilience

Migrating and deploying production-grade environments is easy when shifting to Oracle Database@Azure. Oracle offers confirmed database migration methods, together with automated migration options like Zero-Downtime Migration (ZDM). Oracle Database@Azure additionally helps the Oracle Most Availability Structure (MAA), which offers trusted high-availability architectures and configurations to satisfy a variety of resiliency necessities.

Getting began

We’re thrilled to supply Oracle Database@Azure as an thrilling new choice to run Oracle database providers in Azure alongside your non-Oracle workloads, and use Azure cloud providers to function, handle, and innovate throughout all of them. To be taught extra about Oracle Database@Azure, watch this video, or go to Oracle Database@Azure.