With Oracle Database@Azure, organizations get the power and versatility of running Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database natively inside Microsoft Azure data centers and benefit from extremely low latency connections, high performance, and scalability. And Oracle plans to provide Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure within the next 12 months, which will bring hyper-elastic scaling and pay-per-use economics for customers running Exadata Database Service.

Since launching last year, we’ve seen our customers migrate existing workloads and build new cloud applications that seamlessly integrate the Oracle Database with native Azure capabilities. Best of all, our customers value the partnership. Today, we’re excited to share an update on the work our teams have been doing together to deliver enterprise security and networking enhancements for Oracle Database@Azure, expanded integrations with Microsoft services, and a continued commitment to expand global capacity to meet customer demand.

Now available for the first time in South America

Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in South America for the first time with the Brazil South region. We also continue to expand in Europe with Italy North. Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in nine regions across the world with an additional 24 more regions planned by the end of 2025. Current regional availability includes Australia East, Brazil South, Canada Central, East US, France Central, Germany West Central, Italy North, US West (DR), and UK South.

Database@Azure regional expansion

To meet growing global demand, the service is also planned to be available in more regions with the following details on the timeline:

  • The service is planned to be available in 13 more Azure regions by the end of 2025: Central India, Central US, East US 2, Japan East, North Europe, South Central US, Southeast Asia, Spain Central, Sweden Central, United Arab Emirates North, West Europe, West US 2, and West US 3. 
  • With plans to support disaster recovery in 11 Azure regions by the end of 2025: Australia Southeast (DR), Brazil Southeast (DR), Canada East (DR), France South (DR), Germany North (DR), Japan West (DR), North Central US (DR), South India (DR), Sweden South (DR), UAE Central (DR), and UK West (DR). 

Enhancing networking and security capabilities

The general availability release offers the following features and capabilities for networking and security:

  • Azure firewall and third-party firewalls: To meet security and compliance requirements, enterprise customers often require application to database traffic to be inspected using either Azure Firewall or third-party network virtual appliances (NVAs). With support for user defined routes (UDR) on Oracle Database@Azure, subnets and application subnets can now route the traffic via the Azure Firewall or NVAs.
  • Microsoft Sentinel: Currently available in public preview, integration with Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-based SIEM and SOAR solution to help detect and respond to cyberthreats. 

Expanding portfolio of supported integrations 

This release also supports integration with the following services:

  • Microsoft Purview: Now available in public preview, Microsoft Purview on Oracle Database@Azure provides comprehensive data governance and compliance capabilities that organizations can use to manage, secure, and track data across Oracle workloads. Purview’s integration with Oracle Database@Azure helps you enhance data visibility, achieve compliance with industry regulations, and improve data security and governance at scale. 
  • Enhanced integration with Microsoft Fabric: Oracle GoldenGate integration with Microsoft Fabric now supports the public preview of Open Mirroring. This powerful combination delivers real-time data replication that continuously synchronizes from any of the over 50 GoldenGate sources across your hybrid and multicloud environments into mirror database in the Microsoft Fabric, helping ensure data is always analytics ready.

New capabilities to support management and operations 

The following features help support management and operations:

  • Azure multi subscription: Azure customers can now add or link multiple azure subscriptions to a primary subscription that was used to purchase the Oracle Database@Azure service. You can now also create VM clusters with an Exadata infrastructure created in a different Azure subscription. This feature enables you to avoid creating and managing Exadata infrastructure for each of the various environments and reduce their costs. 
  • Azure Resource Manager-based Terraform: Using both OCI Multicloud Landing Zone for Azure and Microsoft Verified Modules, multiple templates empower Oracle Database@Azure. These Terraform/OpenTofu modules leverage four (4) Terraform providers, AzureRM, AzureAD, AzAPI, and OCI, covering IAM, networking, and database layer resources orchestration. Use these reference implementations for a quick start deployment or customize them for a more complex topology fit to your needs. For more information, see Announcing expanded Terraform support for Oracle Database@Azure. 
  • Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery service: A fully managed service available for organizations running Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure. The Recovery service helps organizations to quickly recover business-critical data from ransomware attacks with zero data loss, comply with financial requirements by improving operational efficiency, and meet user expectations for cloud service simplicity.  

Getting started with Oracle Database@Azure

If your enterprise depends on Oracle Database and has an Azure-first cloud strategy, we encourage you to learn more about Oracle Database@Azure. We’ve made it easy for you to procure, transact, and provision the Oracle Database services directly from Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Azure portal. Customers can use existing Azure commitments, discount programs, and their Oracle license benefits, such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle Support Rewards. Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery service are available with custom quotes through private offer. Oracle Autonomous Database is also available as pay-as-you-go, giving you the flexibility to deploy a fully managed database in minutes. To get started, contact our sales team. 

We also invite you to experience the benefits firsthand in at Microsoft Ignite. Come join us in-person at Booth 335 or virtually to learn more! 

Microsoft Ignite sessions: 

Live demos at Microsoft Ignite: