Oracle has made the newest generation of its Dedicated Region offering - Dedicated Region25 - available.

Oracle Dedicated Regions are Oracle hardware that can be installed in a customer's own data center. Notably, the newest iteration of the offering has reduced the scale dramatically and is now offered in deployments as small as three racks.

As noted by Oracle's new CEO, Clay Magouyrk, during a keynote at the Oracle AI World event in Las Vegas, the first version of the Dedicated Region required more than 50 racks.

Plans for the Dedicated Region25 were first shared in September 2024, with Oracle stating that it would be available sometime in 2025.

From the three rack deployment, customers can access a complete public cloud region with 200+ Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud services.

“Organizations want the freedom to run AI and cloud services where they deliver the most value, a need that’s only growing as sovereign AI considerations drive stricter requirements around data location and control,” said Scott Twaddle, SVP, product and industries, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

“With OCI Dedicated Region25, we’re bringing the full power of Oracle Cloud to virtually any data center. This new deployment option enables unmatched flexibility, operational simplicity, and enterprise-grade sovereignty—redefining what a dedicated cloud can be and helping ensure customers are ready for the future.”

Among customers of the new offering is Fujitsu, which in 2024 revealed it would use Oracle hardware to establish a sovereign cloud in Japan.

“As we continue to leverage the cloud to help deliver the best possible customer experience, gaining flexibility in how and where we deploy services has become a key element of our cloud strategy,” said Kazushi Koga, corporate executive officer, SEVP, head of platform, Fujitsu Limited.

“With OCI Dedicated Region25 delivering the full range of OCI services via a small physical footprint inside our own data centers, we will be able to deploy apps and services quickly and easily to our customers while benefiting from the flexibility to expand our deployment without downtime or re-architecting. As a result, OCI Dedicated Region25 will enable us to run AI and cloud services anywhere they deliver the most value for our business.”

Dedicated Regions were first introduced in 2020. Currently, there are 60 OCI Dedicated Regions or Oracle Alloy regions live or planned globally.

Other known adopters of OCI Dedicated Regions include Beyon Solutions, Nomura Research, and Vodafone.