With the rapid adoption of AI-enabled workloads, IT teams face constant pressure to maximize application performance while keeping costs under control and maintaining a strong security posture.
When I talk with customers, I often find they run applications and cloud-based services at a cloud provider like Microsoft Azure but continue to operate on-premises databases. As these organizations expand their portfolio of cloud-based AI apps, managing an on-premises database can become a liability in terms of operational cost, complexity, security, and overall solution performance.
Oracle Database@Azure offers a broad portfolio of Oracle AI Database services and tackles this challenge head on. It allows customers to optimize the data and application layer together as a unified and natively integrated solution. Oracle Database@Azure co-locates Oracle AI Database services on data-optimized Oracle Exadata infrastructure in Azure datacenters—delivering micro-second latency for AI apps, improving ROI, and reducing management complexity.
Global expansion to the West Europe (Netherlands) region
Global availability of Oracle Database@Azure is extremely important for our customers as they look to expand and address regional compliance requirements. During 2025, we worked with Microsoft to dramatically grow the global footprint of Oracle AI Database services running on Oracle Database@Azure, now supporting more than 30 regions around the world. As part of this expansion, I am thrilled to announce that we’ve expanded Oracle Database@Azure to the West Europe (Netherlands) region. In addition, Oracle Database@Azure is now live in the Brazil Southeast region in Rio de Janeiro, which complements the existing Brazil South region located in São Paulo and expands customer disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.
With this announcement, Oracle Database@Azure is available in the following Azure regions: Canada Central, Canada East, Central US, East US, East US2, North Central US, South Central US, West US, West US 2, West US 3, UK South, UK West, France Central, France South, Germany North, Germany West Central, North Europe, Italy North, West Europe, Spain Central, Sweden Central, Switzerland North, United Arab Emirates Central, United Arab Emirates North, Australia East, Australia Southeast, Central India, South India, Japan East, Japan West, Southeast Asia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast.
See the full list of Oracle Database@Azure services available by Azure region and be sure to register for Oracle AI World Tour Amsterdam on January 29th, 2026 to learn more.
Seamlessly migrate to Oracle Database@Azure
Oracle Database@Azure offers the same broad set of Oracle database capabilities available on-premises through services including Oracle Base Database Service, Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse, Oracle GoldenGate, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service. With Oracle Database@Azure, customers can easily and rapidly migrate their databases to Azure without rearchitecting their solution. In addition, customers can use Oracle Zero Downtime Migration to automate the migration process and minimize downtime and implement Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Silver and Gold reference architectures in Azure. Finally, when migrating to Oracle Database@Azure, customers can continue to use their existing Oracle licenses in a bring-your-own-license (BYOL) model or use a license-included model.
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