This weblog is co-authored by Ravi Turlapati, Head of Strategic Merchandise and Progress, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
The Microsoft and Oracle partnership is concentrated 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 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 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 possibly can 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 increase the supply of extra areas in 2024, starting with Germany Central, Australia East, France Central, Canada Central, Brazil South, Japan East, United Kingdom South, Central United States, and South Central United States. We’ll proceed so as to add extra areas primarily based 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 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 possibly can optimize latency and efficiency.
- Streamlined migration: You should utilize acquainted and confirmed Oracle options like Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) emigrate Oracle databases as is without having for refactoring purposes or databases.
- Software modernization: You should utilize the wealthy set of utility providers, growth instruments, and frameworks out there in Azure to modernize your workloads and run cloud native purposes with direct entry to knowledge in Oracle Database@Azure, with the identical safety and compliance throughout your complete resolution.
- Information 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 purposes between sources, and deal with even mission-critical utility.
- Simplified operations: You may 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 too can do database provisioning and administration by way of OCI interfaces together with entry to acquainted tooling like Information Guard, GoldenGate, and others.
- Simplified buying: You should purchase Oracle Database@Azure via the Azure Market and reap the benefits of present Azure and Oracle commitments and licenses. You’ll even be eligible for Oracle Assist Rewards, a program the place you possibly can earn rewards that you should utilize to cut back your Oracle expertise license assist invoice.
- Unified buyer assist: You may contact both your Oracle or Microsoft assist staff for a unified assist course of.
Bringing the ability of Oracle Exadata to Azure clients
Main organizations in each business have lengthy relied on Oracle Exadata and Oracle Actual Software Clusters (RAC) to profit from their knowledge and to energy mission crucial purposes. Oracle Database@Azure clients could have entry to Oracle RAC for prime 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 simple 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.