Oracle's has expanded its Database@Azure footprint to include Brazil South and Italy North regions.
The solution, which sees Oracle locating its Exadata database-optimized servers and Real Application Clusters in Microsoft Azure data centers, is now generally available from nine regions globally.
Oracle and Microsoft aim to add a further 24 regions by the end of 2025, as well as 11 disaster recovery-only Azure regions.
Plans for the offering were first shared in September 2023, with the Oracle Database@Azure offering launching in the Azure East US region in Virginia in December 2023.
In addition to adding the new regions, Oracle has expanded the offering with new features including Autonomous Database, which integrates Azure services such as Entra ID, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Code, Azure API Management Service, and Microsoft Teams, integration with Microsoft Fabric and Pureview, and Azure Resource Manager-based Terraform.
In the next 12 months, Oracle will also provide Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure in Oracle Database@Azure.
Customers of the Oracle Database@Azure offering include the Craneware Group and Vodafone.
“Oracle Databases running on Exadata have been powering mission-critical applications on our physical servers for many years,” said Pedro Sardo, technology shared services and group IT operations director, Vodafone. “With Oracle Database@Azure, we can now unify and run database applications across multiple clouds. With this expanded capability, we can continue to provide secure, resilient, and high-performing digital services to our customers at scale, only now faster and more cost-effectively.”
“More and more customers are seeing the value and flexibility that Oracle Database@Azure delivers for their most critical workloads,” added 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.”
