This weblog is co-authored by Ravi Turlapati, Head of Strategic Products and Growth, 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 companies working on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) inside Azure datacenters and offers clients extra flexibility in the place they run their workloads.
We are excited to share that Oracle Database@Azure is mostly obtainable within the Azure East United States area, with extra areas coming in 2024. You can now use Oracle database companies working on OCI {hardware} deployed in Azure knowledge facilities. This streamlines the migration of Oracle database workloads to Azure, the place you may combine and innovate with the breadth of Microsoft Cloud companies like Azure AI and our software platform and developer companies. You’ll be capable of buy this Oracle-managed service, working on OCI inside Azure datacenters, from the Azure Marketplace with the identical options and pricing as Oracle Exadata cloud service on OCI. And, you should use your present Azure and Oracle commitments, program advantages, and licenses to take action.
Exadata Database Service is the primary service to be obtainable together with assist for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle GoldenGate, and Oracle Data 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 companies.
Many clients have proven sturdy curiosity within the product, and the Oracle and Microsoft product groups are working diligently to increase 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 will proceed so as to add extra areas based mostly on buyer demand, and we encourage clients to share their necessities for added areas with their Oracle or Microsoft account groups.
The advantages of Oracle databases in Azure
Oracle Database@Azure supplies a number of advantages:
- Optimized efficiency and latency: Oracle database companies in Azure are designed to supply excessive ranges of efficiency, scale, safety, and availability. By working OCI databases in Azure datacenters alongside different companies in Azure, you may optimize latency and efficiency.
- Streamlined migration: You can use acquainted and confirmed Oracle options like Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) emigrate Oracle databases as is without having for refactoring functions or databases.
- Application modernization: You can use the wealthy set of software companies, growth instruments, and frameworks obtainable 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 all the resolution.
- Data and AI innovation: You can unlock knowledge insights and innovation once you apply Azure knowledge analytics and AI companies throughout your Oracle and non-Oracle knowledge and functions between assets, and deal with even mission-critical software.
- Simplified operations: You can deploy and handle Oracle Database@Azure infrastructure via the Azure portal and use native Azure instruments to view metrics, occasions, and logs for all Oracle Database@Azure databases. You may do database provisioning and administration by way of OCI interfaces together with entry to acquainted tooling like Data Guard, GoldenGate, and others.
- Simplified buying: You can buy Oracle Database@Azure via the Azure Marketplace and make the most of present Azure and Oracle commitments and licenses. You’ll even be eligible for Oracle Support Rewards, a program the place you may earn rewards that you should use to scale back your Oracle know-how license assist invoice.
- Unified buyer assist: You can contact both your Oracle or Microsoft assist workforce for a unified assist course of.
Bringing the ability of Oracle Exadata to Azure clients
Leading organizations in each trade have lengthy relied on Oracle Exadata and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) to profit from their knowledge and to energy mission essential functions. Oracle Database@Azure clients may have entry to Oracle RAC for top availability working on OCI {hardware}. The service might 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 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 Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA), which supplies trusted high-availability architectures and configurations to fulfill a spread of resiliency necessities.
Getting began
We are thrilled to supply Oracle Database@Azure as an thrilling new choice to run Oracle database companies in Azure alongside your non-Oracle workloads, and use Azure cloud companies 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.