We’ve been busy during the summer of 2025, making it easier for customers to adopt and deploy Oracle Databases with our partners at Microsoft. Oracle Database@Azure already enables customers to use Oracle Database services and hardware as native cloud offerings, configured through the Azure portal and via Azure APIs. Today, we’re pleased to announce even more capabilities through our partnership.
Let’s look at what’s new.
Introducing Base Database Service for Oracle Database@Azure
Our biggest milestone this summer: Oracle Base Database Service is now generally available on Oracle Database@Azure.
Oracle Base Database Service offers customers the simplicity of a managed service, low-cost ECPU-based billing for flexible OCI managed VM-based resources, block storage, along with the choice of Oracle Database 19c and 23ai.
With the addition of Oracle Base Database Service, on-premises Oracle Database customers now have even more database options to match their workload needs — expanding our existing options, Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database.
Here’s what that means:
- Oracle Base Database Service is available today via both private offers and pay-as-you-go in the Azure Marketplace. Customers can leverage their existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) to purchase Oracle Database@Azure services.
- Simple pricing: ECPU-based billing makes it easier to understand and control costs, and is designed so you only pay for what you use.
Why this matters:
This new service makes Oracle Database more flexible than ever, which helps customers to:
- Modernize and migrate legacy apps with less friction
- Run all your database workloads in the cloud, from line of business apps to mission critical services
- Increase flexibility and reduce administration by moving small or stand-alone workloads from on-premises or IaaS environments to a fully managed service
For many organizations, this could be the tipping point that finally makes database modernization not just possible, but practical.
Oracle Database@Azure: Expanding Worldwide with New Regions
Over the summer, Oracle Database@Azure grew faster than ever before, expanding to 25 regions and 40 Availability Zones worldwide. This gives customers new options for data residency, disaster recovery, and lower latency. It is a major milestone in bringing Oracle’s Database services closer to where customers already run their business.
Newly added and expanded regions include:
- West US 2
- West US 3
- Central India
- North Europe
- Sweden Central
- UAE North
- UAE Central
- Germany North
- Japan West
Now, whether you’re in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, or the U.S., you can count on Oracle Database@Azure to be closer to your workloads and your users.
The Big Picture:
The launch of Base Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure, alongside Oracle Database@Azure’s global expansion, gives enterprises new ways to modernize—on their own terms.
Whether you’re optimizing costs, replacing legacy systems, or scaling for the future, Oracle Database@Azure makes it easier to get there.
Ready to Get Started?
Oracle Database@Azure is available in more regions than ever, and Oracle Base Database Service is live in the Azure Marketplace.
Learn more at Oracle.com/azure today or connect with your Oracle and Microsoft teams to see how you can take the next step in your cloud journey.