Update 06/21/2024 – Oracle Database@Azure will be expanded to include the Oracle Autonomous Database. Initially, the service will only be available in the Azure East U.S. region, but 14 other regions are planned. Given Oracle Database@Azure’s previous path, a move to Europe seems logical.
Autonomous Database is a fully automated Oracle Database service that integrates with the Azure portal and APIs. It allows companies to migrate and run simple and mission-critical workloads. The service runs on top of the Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure, placed in the Azure data centres. This is to ensure performance, availability, security and scalability.
By running the Autonomous Database on OCI in Azure data centres, developers should be able to manage the provisioning of a data platform easily. A platform that “accommodate any data or development model for any use case, while eliminating or reducing the complex and time-consuming integrations,” Oracle said.
When Database@Azure was originally launched, the service was only available in the US. About six months later, it came to Europe. It will have to be seen how Autonomous Database fares, but a future availability on our continent seems logical.
Original – The Oracle Database@Azure service is now available through the Microsoft Azure Germany West Central region in Frankfurt.
This was just announced at the Oracle CloudWorld Tour in London. With this move, Microsoft and Oracle are bringing the partnership to European infrastructure for the first time. Last September, they officially announced that they would connect Oracle databases to Azure in Azure data centres. This is a colocation of Oracle hardware and software in Azure data centers, which still needed work to bring it to Europe.
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Expansion in Europe
By bringing Oracle Database@Azure to Europe for the first time, companies in the region can use Oracle database services running locally on OCI hardware in Azure data centres. This means that companies can count on the highest possible level of performance for Oracle databases and migrate to the cloud more easily. Also, their data is in European territory, which is interesting from a privacy perspective and regulation.
“The expansion of our collaboration with Oracle demonstrates our mutual commitment to help customers streamline the migration of workloads to the cloud so they can combine the best of Oracle with the breadth of Microsoft cloud services, like Azure AI, to empower business innovation,” responded Microsoft CVP Azure Infrastructure Product and Design Erin Chapple.
Overall, the number of regions now totals 15, and the two companies plan to increase the number significantly this year, with further focus on European regions. For example, France Central, Italy North, Sweden Central and United Kingdom South are also planned this year.
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