We’re pleased to announce the general availability of our eighth Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Microsoft Azure interconnect region in Vinhedo, Brazil. Vinhedo is our 30th region worldwide, the second region in Brazil, and third in Latin America.

With this interconnect service, customers in the region can now migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across their Microsoft Azure and OCI environments with a dedicated low-latency connection and identity federation. The partnership also offers a collaborative support model. With three cloud regions in South America and this new interconnect service, customers can take advantage of multiregion and multicloud architectures for disaster recovery and service delivery across the region. Multicloud strategies are becoming increasingly important to companies because they allow companies to use the strength of multiple cloud providers, reduce single-source supplier risks, and ensure resiliency and capacity.

Simple configuration, high performance

The setup of the interconnect is a straightforward process, and we provide infrastructure-as-code services like Terraform to streamline the configuration. Using single sign on to manage resources across both OCI and Azure, companies can unify Identity and AccessManagement policies, reuse jointly tested and validated deployment architectures, and tap their existing Oracle and Microsoft customer support relationships from either environment.

We performed ICMP latency and throughput testing using a 1-Gbps port size of a private interconnect between the Vinhedo OCI region and the Campinas Azure region. The results showed a 2-ms round-trip latency between an OCI virtual machine (VM) and an Azure VM, and 957-Mbps throughput using a 1-Gbps port size interconnect.

We also validated a database workload using a two-node Oracle VM Real Application Clusters (RAC) database running on OCI and a SwingBench workload running on an Azure VM to ensure that successful database transactions were completed without any transaction failures.

TIM Brasil’s multicloud architecture

Telecom Italia Mobile Brasil (TIM Brasil) is taking advantage of this interconnect service out of the OCI region in Vinhedo. The telecom company uses the Oracle-Microsoft Azure interconnect to run a multicloud architecture, running within OCI applications and services, such as Oracle Customer Relationship Management, third-party billing applications, integration services, Oracle Exadata Cloud service, Oracle Database Cloud service, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution on OCI. Connected to these applications and running in Azure are SAP HANA and Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure workloads. Using a 40-Gbps connection and federated identity between the two clouds, TIM Brasil is migrating a combined 7,000 servers, 35,000 cores, 1,200 databases, and 15 petabytes of storage, with an estimated data latency of 2 milliseconds.

Through this partnership with Oracle and Microsoft, TIM Brasil expects to improve customer service processes, internal operations, billing, collection, and management of digital platforms. “Our proposal is to take the customer experience to a new level, with more efficiency and agility, always with the highest levels of security,” says Pietro Labriola, TIM Brasil CEO. Labriola also says that TIM Brasil’s investments in areas such as analytics and digital are “fundamental for the expansion of the company’s business.”

Next steps

This region is joining the following available interconnect regions:

  • Oracle Cloud UK South (London) to Azure UK South

  • Oracle Cloud Europe Netherlands Northwest (Amsterdam) to Azure West Europe

  • Oracle Cloud Frankfurt (FRA) to Azure Germany west Central

  • Oracle Cloud Ashburn (North America) to Azure US East

  • Oracle Cloud Canada Southeast (Toronto) to Azure Canada Central

  • Oracle Cloud Japan East (Tokyo) to Azure Japan East

  • Oracle Cloud West (San Jose) to Azure US West

We plan to continue to invest in this unique partnership and are adding more interconnected regions for our customers. Check back to keep up to date on our ever-growing expansion.

Learn more about Oracle and Azure interconnect in the following resources: