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.
With the addition of Brazil South and Italy North, Oracle Database@Azure is now available in nine regions—Australia East, Brazil South, Canada Central, East US, France Central, Germany West Central, Italy North, UK South, and US West (DR).
In addition, 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).
Multicloud Made for Customers
Customers can purchase Oracle Database@Azure through the Azure Marketplace. They can use existing Azure commitments and discount programs, and their Oracle license benefits such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle Support Rewards. Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service are available with custom quotes via private offer. Oracle Autonomous Database is also available as pay-as-you-go, giving customers the flexibility to deploy a fully managed database in minutes.
With Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure datacenters, 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.”
“To meet the diverse needs of modern enterprises, we continue to make Oracle Database@Azure available in new regions and to add new features and capabilities,” said Brett Tanzer, vice president, Azure Product Management, Microsoft. “This collaboration with Oracle helps our customers adapt to market conditions, compete more effectively, and deliver better experiences to their customers.”
