As Vice President of Product for Oracle Database@Azure, when I speak with customers about optimizing application delivery, lowering cost, and taking advantage of the power of AI, one thing is clear—companies are moving faster than ever before to build and migrate towards cloud-first applications. Our customers have global reach and require the performance, security, and flexibility of Oracle AI Database services, with regional availability and simple financial terms required to support a wide range of use cases.
This is precisely why 2025 was a year of tremendous investment for the Oracle Database@Azure business. Through our partnership with Microsoft Azure, we’ve expanded Oracle Database@Azure global coverage from 14 to 34 regions; launched key Oracle AI Database offerings like Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale infrastructure, Oracle Base Database Service, Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse, and OCI GoldenGate; and announced programs such as Oracle Multicloud Universal Credits to help customers reduce complexity.
This investment is paying off as Oracle CEO, Clay Magouyrk, highlights in the press release ahead of the Oracle December 10 earnings call, “Our Multicloud database business is our fastest growing business—up 817% in Q2.”.
Looking back on 2025, I am extremely proud of the progress we’ve made to provide customers with more flexibility and choice. That said, we’re just getting started! In 2026, I look forward to continuing to innovate on behalf of our customers to help accelerate their journey to the cloud and adoption of AI-powered workloads.
To learn more about the latest innovations from Oracle and Oracle Multicloud services, be sure to mark your calendars for a 2026 Oracle AI World Tour event near you!
Below are some of the key highlights from 2025:
March
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure
We announced general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure, eliminating the need to provision dedicated database and storage servers, while giving customers the performance, reliability, and availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service with up to 95 percent lower minimum infrastructure costs. Read the press release for more information.
August
Streaming Exadata logs and events to Azure Monitor
We released a new capability that allows streaming of logs and events from Exadata infrastructure and VM Clusters directly into Azure Monitor. This gives customers a native way to monitor Exadata activity using familiar tools like Log Analytics, Event Hub, and Azure Monitor alerts. Read the blog for more information.
September
Oracle Base Database Service
We launched Oracle Base Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure—providing automated database lifecycle management that reduces administration, built-in low-code application development that accelerates new application deployment, and compute scaling with pay-as-you-go pricing that lowers costs. Read Muneer Mirza’s blog to learn more.
October
Continued portfolio expansion, partner program, and universal credit program
We expanded our portfolio of services with the general availability announcement of Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse, and OCI GoldenGate on Oracle Database@Azure. We also announced the Oracle Database@Azure partner program—enabling Microsoft and Oracle partners to purchase Oracle Database@Azure through the Microsoft Marketplace via a private offer, resell it to their customers, and integrate it into their solutions (see the press release to learn more). We also announced Oracle Multicloud Universal Credits that enables customers to procure Oracle AI Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with credits that are usable across Oracle Database@AWS, Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and OCI. See the press release to learn more.
Oracle AI World 2025
Oracle showcased strong momentum in helping customers modernize core databases in the cloud, driven largely by emerging AI use cases. Oracle’s expanding multicloud integration—including new regions and new Oracle AI Database services on Microsoft, Google, and AWS—provides customers with unprecedented flexibility and choice while enabling innovation across platforms. See Nathan Thomas’ AI World 2025 Multicloud wrap-up blog for more information.
November
Microsoft Ignite 2025
Muneer Mirza (VP of Oracle Database@Azure) delivered a breakout session exploring how the Oracle-Microsoft partnership provides organizations with access to Oracle’s enterprise-class database expertise alongside Azure’s massive global reach. The event also included a breakout session led by Tushar Pandit (VP of Oracle Product Management) and Kalyan Kaki (Group PM Manager at Microsoft) discussing how to modernize Oracle workloads on Azure. In his wrap-up blog, Muneer provides a summary of the event.
December
Expansion to West Europe (Netherlands) region
Capping off the year, we announced expansion of Oracle Database@Azure into West Europe (Netherlands), giving customers more options as they look to optimize their global footprint and address regional compliance requirements.
Featured customers
Conduent
Since January 2025, Conduent has nearly doubled its footprint on Oracle Database@Azure. The journey began with the migration of its U.S. tolling application, which experienced organic growth as quality assurance (QA) and disaster recovery (DR) workloads moved to the platform. Building on this success, Conduent has started migrating additional lines of business, including Pharmacy and Benefits applications, to Oracle Database@Azure, a move that is expected to enhance business agility. Read the case study for more information.
Liantis
Liantis migrated disaster recovery from Oracle Database on Microsoft Azure’s memory optimized virtual machines (VMs) to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure—resulting in extremely low latency, faster response times, better security controls, compelling cost savings, and scalability for production workloads. Learn more about Liantis.
SEFE
With a relatively small Oracle database footprint but some key business needs, SEFE was looking for a solution that would offer high availability and data recovery without a steep price tag. Oracle Database@Azure gave the organization the capabilities it needed in a compact, cost-efficient form factor. Halfway through migrating its 17 applications and 37 environments, SEFE is already seeing performance improvements of an average of 10%. Read the full story.