This blog is co-authored by Kambiz Aghili, Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Multicloud, Oracle.
One year ago, Microsoft and Oracle built upon our multi-year partnership by announcing a first of its kind solution—Oracle Database@Azure—to offer Oracle Database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) inside Microsoft Azure datacenters. This gives customers the ability to run or build new cloud applications that combine Oracle Database services with native Microsoft Azure services and benefit from extremely low latency and high performance.
We are excited to share important new enhancements to Oracle Database@Azure that unlock more value from data and pave the way to AI innovation:
- Microsoft Fabric plus Oracle Database@Azure integration to fuel customer data and AI innovations.
- Integration with Microsoft Sentinel and compliance certifications to provide industry-leading security and compliance for mission-critical workloads.
- Plans to expand offering to a total of 21 primary regions, each with at least two availability zones and support for Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) to deliver the highest levels of availability and resilience.
- Examples from customers joining us on stage at Oracle CloudWorld this week.
Customers choose Oracle Database@Azure to advance their cloud strategy
Customer choice is at the heart of the Microsoft and Oracle partnership. Performance, scalability, security, and reliability are top of mind for our customers as they migrate and modernize mission-critical workloads in the cloud.
Across industries, leading organizations such as Conduent, Liantis, MSCI, State Street Corporation, Sanofi, and SAS are choosing Oracle Database@Azure to run their Oracle workloads.
“With the continuing threat of ransomware, companies must adapt to rebuild their critical services and systems from scratch—not just reconstitute data into an environment that is compromised. Oracle Database@Azure is the only service that meets MSCI’s Cyber DR needs from a recovery time, security isolation, recovery point and cost perspective.”—John Rogers, Chief Information Security Officer, MSCI.
“Sanofi is advancing its cloud strategy and modernization of critical workloads on the cloud. By hosting Oracle Databases on Azure, we expect to significantly enhance the scalability, reliability, and performance of our critical workloads. This approach enables us to optimize costs, accelerate cloud growth, and achieve greater agility and flexibility across our operations. While currently in the initial phases of implementation, Oracle Database@Azure already shows promising potential to support our long-term digital transformation goal.”—Kevin Fuller, Global Head of Technology, Sanofi.
“Oracle Database@Azure provides us with a best-of-breed service—combining the performance of Exadata and power of Azure. Oracle Database@Azure allows us to accelerate our cloud journey for Azure workloads without major refactoring. It protects our existing investments in Exadata and allows for a seamless migration experience for our mission-critical workloads.”—Akshay Sharma, Managing Director, Cloud Engineering, State Street Corporation.
New Microsoft Fabric plus Oracle Database@Azure integration fuels customer data and AI innovations
Now in public preview, customers have the opportunity to use OCI GoldenGate—a database replication and heterogeneous data integration service—to sync their data estates with Microsoft Fabric. This integration unlocks new prospects for data analytics and AI applications by unifying diverse datasets, allowing teams to identify patterns and visualize opportunities.
Microsoft Fabric is an ever-evolving, AI-powered data analytics platform that empowers customers to unify and future-proof their data estate. Fabric keeps up with the trends and seamlessly integrates each new capability so businesses can spend less time integrating and managing their data estate and more time unlocking value from their data. OCI GoldenGate offers seamless support to integrate data across dozens of data sources and targets including OneLake in Microsoft Fabric, delivering enterprise-grade, real-time data to the Microsoft ecosystem. The combination of OCI GoldenGate’s continuous, low-latency data availability in Microsoft Fabric’s comprehensive data and analytics tools, like Power BI and Copilot, enables customers to connect their essential data sources—both Oracle and non-Oracle—to drive better insights and decision-making.
Oracle Database@Azure customer workloads now protected with industry-leading security and compliance integrations
With Azure’s industry-leading security and compliance, Oracle Database@Azure customers are protecting their data with enterprise-grade threat protection.
Now in public preview is the Oracle Database@Azure integration with Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-native security information and event management system designed to identify and address cyberthreats across your entire enterprise with intelligent security analytics. Customers will be able to extend their threat analytics to their Oracle Exadata Database Service and infrastructure powering Oracle Database@Azure and the Oracle Database services that operate them.
To help customers address regulatory requirements, we’ve also extended Azure’s industry-leading compliance to Oracle Database@Azure through a comprehensive array of global certifications for privacy, healthcare, payment services, and more.
Securing mission-critical workloads is also essential for resiliency and business continuity.
Oracle Database@Azure enterprise-grade resiliency enhancements boost data protection and business continuity
Oracle Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service is now generally available, offering businesses a fully managed data protection service for organizations running Oracle Exadata Database on Oracle Database@Azure. Organizations can promptly restore business-critical data after ransomware attacks without losing any data and enhance operational efficiency to address financial regulations—all with the simplicity expected of cloud services.
Oracle Database@Azure is designed with a robust architecture to meet the high levels of availability and resilience required for business-critical applications. With the capability to deploy across at least two availability zones in all primary regions, Oracle Database@Azure is optimized to provide maximum uptime and fault tolerance. Currently, all regions provide support for Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Gold tier. For customers looking to achieve the highest level of availability, selecting a combination of regions such as UK South for primary and Germany West Central for disaster recovery allows them to collaborate with both Oracle and Microsoft for MAA Platinum certification.
Regional expansion underway to meet growing customer demand
Customer demand for Oracle Database@Azure continues to grow—today, we’re in six regions worldwide and we’re announcing plans to expand regional availability to a total of 21 regions around the world. In addition, we plan to add support for disaster recovery in a number of other Azure regions. Watch this page for more information on the new regions opening soon.
Updates for Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure
We recently announced the general availability of Oracle Autonomous Database service is available on Oracle Database@Azure. Customers can purchase Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure via a private offer from Oracle sales or with a new pay-as-you-go option available in the Azure Marketplace. The Oracle Autonomous Database service provides customers with a managed Oracle Database service, alongside the Oracle Exadata Database Service which provides the ultimate control and flexibility.
Getting started with Oracle Database@Azure
We are excited to offer Oracle Database@Azure as your solution to run Oracle workloads alongside non-Oracle workloads, and leverage Azure services to innovate and get applications AI-ready.
If you are here at Oracle CloudWorld, please join us at these sessions and stop at the Microsoft booth for more demos and to speak with an expert.
Learn how to migrate and manage your Oracle databases in Azure.
To get started, contact our sales team.