Oracle announced the Craneware Group, Vodafone, and organizations from almost every major industry in the world are selecting Oracle Database@Azure to accelerate their cloud migrations and support their most demanding and sensitive workloads.To meet rapidly growing global demand, Oracle Database@Azure is being made available in new regions across the world and new services continue to be added.
Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in South America for the first time with the Brazil South region and continues to expand in Europe with Italy North. Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in nine regions across the world with an additional 24 more regions planned by the end of 2025.
Microsoft and Oracle continue to add powerful new features and capabilities for Oracle Database@Azure. These capabilities include:
- Autonomous Database integrations with Azure: Autonomous Database seamlessly integrates with key Azure services including Entra ID, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Code, Azure API Management Service, and Microsoft Teams. New integrations include the option to store database encryption keys in Azure Key Vault and accessing SharePoint objects directly with SQL.
- Azure Resource Manager (RM)-based Terraform: Now generally available for both Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure. With Terraform support, provisioning and security can be automated with declarative infrastructure that can be coded, shared, versioned, and executed within a workflow.
- Enhanced integration with Microsoft Fabric: Open Mirroring is now in public preview, enabling continuous data replication and synchronization to mirror databases in Fabric with Oracle GoldenGate. Open Mirroring keeps mirrored data synchronized in real-time, to help ensure data is analytics-ready within Microsoft Fabric.
- Microsoft Purview integration: Microsoft Purview now supports Oracle Database@Azure for comprehensive data governance and compliance capabilities that organizations can use to manage, secure, and track data across Oracle workloads.
- Oracle Exascale Infrastructure support: Oracle plans to provide Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure in Oracle Database@Azure within the next 12 months. Once available, customers of virtually any size will be able to run Exadata Database Service with hyper-elastic scaling and pay-per-use economics.
In addition to the aforementioned service regions, the service is planned to be available in 24 more regions by the end of 2025. This includes Central India, Central US, Japan East, North Europe, Southeast Asia, South Central US, Spain Central, Sweden Central, United Arab Emirates North, US East 2, West Europe, West US 2, and West US 3, as well as eleven disaster recovery-only Azure regions.
The disaster recovery regions include Australia East (DR), Brazil Southeast (DR), Canada East (DR), France South (DR), Germany North (DR), Japan West (DR), North Central US (DR), South India (DR), Sweden South (DR), United Arab Emirates Central (DR), and UK West (DR).
With Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure data centers, customers benefit from:
- Flexible options to simplify and accelerate migrating their Oracle databases to the cloud, including compatibility with proven migration tools such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration
- The ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including the rich set of Azure development and AI services
- Pricing parity with OCI for the highest level of Oracle database performance, scale, and availability only possible through Oracle Exadata engineered systems underpinning Oracle Database@Azure
- The simplicity, security, and low latency to build integrated solutions with Autonomous Database and Azure services
- Consistency with on-premises deployments of Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata to reduce the need to rearchitect or refactor solutions
- Unified customer experience and support from Oracle and Microsoft
- Simplified purchasing and the ability to leverage Oracle and Microsoft licenses, commitments, and discount programs
- Validated Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure
- The assurance of a unified service and architecture that are tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in the cloud
“More and more customers are seeing the value and flexibility that Oracle Database@Azure delivers for their most critical workloads,” said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “To meet growing global demand and increase the flexibility, availability, and resiliency that Oracle Database@Azure can provide to customers, we are working closely with Microsoft to make it available in more regions around the world and add new services.”
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