We’re pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Microsoft Azure Cloud interconnect in South Africa. The addition of OCI South Africa (JNB) expands our mutual interconnect regions to 12 globally.

With this interconnected service, customers in this region can now migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across their Microsoft Azure and OCI environments with a private, dedicated low-latency connection and identity federation. The partnership also offers a collaborative, comprehensive support model. With multiple cloud regions on five continents, customers can take advantage of multiregion and multicloud architectures for disaster recovery and service delivery across and in region. Multicloud strategies have become critically important to our customers, 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 OCI-Azure interconnect is a straightforward process. You can use the Oracle Cloud Console and Azure portal to configure the interconnection between OCI and Azure cloud. We also 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 Access Management (IAM) policies, reuse jointly tested and validated deployment architectures, and tap their existing Oracle and Microsoft customer support relationships from either environment.

Customers can also choose their bandwidth requirement and ExpressRoute service requirement through local, standard, and premium SKUs. By providing this flexibility of choice, interconnect can seamlessly be inserted into an existing and holistic network architecture.

We performed ICMP latency tests using microsecond interval and throughput using a 1-Gbps port size of a private interconnection between the OCI South Africa region and the Azure South Africa North region. The results showed an approximate 2-ms round-trip latency between an OCI virtual machine (VM) and an Azure VM and 953-Mbps throughput using a 1-Gbps port size interconnection.

Similarly, we performed TCP latency tests using microsecond interval and throughput using a 1-Gbps port size of a private interconnection between the OCI South Africa region and Azure South Africa North region. The results showed an approximate 1.5-ms round-trip latency between an OCI VM and an Azure VM and 945-Mbps throughput using a 1-Gbps port size interconnection.

Next steps

These regions are 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

  • Oracle Cloud Vinhedo (Brazil) to Azure Brazil South

  • Oracle Cloud Phoenix (PHX) to Azure West US 3

  • Oracle Cloud Seoul (ICN) to Azure Korea Central

  • Oracle Cloud Singapore (SIN) to Azure Singapore Southeast Asia

We continue to invest in this unique partnership and are adding more interconnected regions for our customers. Keep up to date on our ever-growing expansion by checking back periodically.

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