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

The Microsoft and Oracle partnership is targeted on giving clients alternative and eradicating the hurdles confronted when migrating mission-critical workloads to the general public cloud the place they will entry the wealthy set of know-how 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 offers clients 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 knowledge 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 have the ability 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 need to use 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 help for Oracle Actual Software Clusters (RAC), Oracle GoldenGate, and Oracle Knowledge Guard applied sciences. We plan to supply Autonomous Database Service within the close to future. Microsoft Azure is the one hyperscaler aside 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 increase the provision 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 clients to share their necessities for extra areas with their Oracle or Microsoft account groups.

The advantages of Oracle databases in Azure

Oracle Database@Azure supplies a bunch 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 should 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 should use the wealthy set of utility providers, improvement instruments, and frameworks out there in Azure to modernize your workloads and run cloud native functions with direct entry to knowledge in Oracle Database@Azure, with the identical safety and compliance throughout the whole answer.
• Knowledge and AI innovation: You may unlock knowledge insights and innovation once you apply Azure knowledge analytics and AI providers throughout your Oracle and non-Oracle knowledge and functions between assets, and deal with even mission-critical utility.
• Simplified operations: You may 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. It’s also possible to do database provisioning and administration through OCI interfaces together with entry to acquainted tooling like Knowledge Guard, GoldenGate, and others.
• Simplified buying: You should buy Oracle Database@Azure by means of the Azure Market and make the most of present Azure and Oracle commitments and licenses. You’ll even be eligible for Oracle Help Rewards, a program the place you’ll be able to earn rewards that you need to use to cut back your Oracle know-how license help invoice.
• Unified buyer help: You may contact both your Oracle or Microsoft help group for a unified help course of.  

Bringing the facility of Oracle Exadata to Azure clients

Main organizations in each business have lengthy relied on Oracle Exadata and Oracle Actual Software Clusters (RAC) to benefit from their knowledge and to energy mission vital functions. Oracle Database@Azure clients can have entry to Oracle RAC for top availability working on OCI {hardware}. The service can be deployable in a number of availability zones to make sure regional excessive availability and in cross-region pairs to help cross-geography catastrophe restoration eventualities.

Trusted migration and resilience

Migrating and deploying production-grade environments is easy when transferring to Oracle Database@Azure. Oracle supplies 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 supplies trusted high-availability architectures and configurations to fulfill 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.