Oracle and Microsoft are excited to announce that customers can sign up for Oracle Database@Azure in the Microsoft Azure Germany West Central region in Frankfurt. This addition marks the debut of Oracle Database@Azure in Europe and the second region after Microsoft Azure East US general availability in December 2023.
To meet growing demand from customers, this year Oracle Database@Azure will further run in the Microsoft Azure Australia East, Brazil South, Canada Central, Central US, France Central, Central India, Italy North, Japan East, Southeast Asia, South Central US, Sweden Central, UK South, and the United Arab Emirates North cloud regions. The continued global expansion gives customers more options for their primary workloads and disaster recovery strategies. This brings the total planned multicloud availability footprint to 15 regions globally.
By choosing Oracle Database@Azure in Frankfurt, businesses in EMEA can more easily meet the performance, compliance, and business continuity needs of their critical enterprise workloads in a region near them. Oracle and Microsoft have designed a robust joint solution, including Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure, designed to meet these requirements head-on, offering the highest possible performance, scalability, and resilience. This includes local high availability clustering (Real Application Clusters), Exadata’s high performance architecture, and the ability to deploy across multiple availability zones.
The cross-availability zone architecture using Oracle Data Guard for standby with local backups on both primary and standby provides high availability and comprehensive data protection for unplanned outages, including data corruption, database failure, and site outage. Mission-critical production applications that require quick recovery time and zero or minimal data loss for all database and system outages and planned maintenance activities will benefit from the capabilities included in Oracle Exadata Database on Oracle Database@Azure.
What Oracle Database@Azure does for businesses
Oracle Database@Azure offers businesses the opportunity to migrate and modernize their existing enterprise workloads to Microsoft Azure. For organizations that use Microsoft Azure for cloud-native application development, they can integrate Microsoft Azure services, such as Azure DevOps and Azure Kubernetes with Oracle Database@Azure.
Customers can purchase Oracle Database@Azure on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace with a private offer. This method enables customers to manage their consumption as part of their existing Microsoft Azure bill. Businesses can also use Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitments (MACC), Oracle unlimited license agreements (ULA), bring your own license (BYOL), and Oracle Support Rewards. Oracle and Microsoft provide collaborative support, making Oracle Database@Azure a comprehensive solution for your database needs.
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