A limited preview of Oracle Database@AWS is now available from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) US East Region.
Customers will now be able to run Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) inside AWS.
The two announced plans for the Oracle Database@AWS offering earlier this year, with plans for a limited release this year and wider availability in 2025.
Oracle Database@AWS enables customers to migrate Oracle Database workloads, including Oracle Exadata and Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC), to the cloud with a low latency connection between the databases and applications on AWS.
Those applications can be running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, AWS Analytics services, or AWS' artificial intelligence and machine learning services.
“Up until now, it has been impossible to replicate the performance and functionality of Oracle Database on Exadata in AWS,” said Dave McCarthy, research vice president, IDC. “With Oracle Database@AWS, customers can finally enjoy that same experience with an easy migration path to the cloud for their on-premises mission-critical workloads. This allows them to reap the benefits of simplifying their daily management and operations to prioritize modernization initiatives.”
“We want our customers to have access to our data services and to be able to seamlessly use multiple clouds,” said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “This partnership provides a unified way for customers to use the best of Oracle and AWS to take advantage of the latest AI innovations and simplify operations. The introduction of Oracle Exadata Database Service in the AWS US East Region is only the beginning, and we plan to continue to work with AWS to meet customer demand.”
Starting with the AWS US East Region, the offering will be made more widely available in the coming months.
Oracle has similar offerings with other hyperscalers including Google and Microsoft.
The Google announcement was revealed in June 2024, and started with a Google Cloud Cross Interconnect with Oracle available in 11 global regions, enabling customers to deploy general-purpose workloads across both Oracle and Google Cloud's services with no data transfer fees. The two are also partnering on Oracle Database@Google Cloud.
Oracle and Microsoft have a longer-standing relationship, making Oracle Database@Azure available in December 2023. This followed Microsoft signing a multi-year agreement to use Oracle Cloud for AI inferencing on its Bing search service. In March 2024, Oracle was preparing to put its cloud infrastructure in three additional Microsoft data centers.