Back in September 2024, at Oracle CloudWorld, we announced the availability of Oracle Database@Google Cloud. This exciting partnership between Oracle and Google Cloud enables scalable and powerful cloud applications built with the Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database running in Google Cloud data centers. Customers benefit from low-latency connectivity between their Google Cloud applications and Oracle-managed Exadata infrastructure designed specifically for running Oracle Database.

We launched with a single zone in four regions: N. Virginia (us-east4), Salt Lake City (us-west3), Frankfurt (europe-west3), and London (europe-west2). Later this year, Oracle and Google Cloud are working together to expand to more regions globally, including Iowa (us-central1), Montreal (northamerica-northeast1), Toronto (northamerica-northeast2), Delhi (asia-south2), Mumbai (asia-south1), Osaka (asia-northeast2), Tokyo (asia-northeast1), and Sao Paulo (southamerica-east1).

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that we’re also adding a second zone in some of these regions, starting with N. Virginia, London, and Frankfurt.

Multiple Zones for More Resilient Applications

Oracle Database@Google Cloud uses Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) for scalability and high availability to protect against hardware failures. This capability already enables a wide range of applications for customers building and running on Google Cloud.

Provisioning more infrastructure in a second zone within a Google Cloud region offers your applications further protection from failure of an entire zone or data center. This capability is crucial for mission-critical and regulated applications for our financial, healthcare, and manufacturing customers.

Like other databases managed by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you can use the Oracle Cloud Console to configure Data Guard, Active Data Guard, and Autonomous Data Guard. Customers using the Oracle Exadata Database Service must provision Exadata infrastructure resources in the second zone before standby databases can be deployed.  Disaster recovery configurations are already supported for replication to other regions. We’re adding support for high-availability configurations that replicate to a second zone within the same region where available. This addition also enables future support for more use cases documented in the Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture.

Getting Started with Oracle Database@Google Cloud

If you’re building applications in Google Cloud and rely on Oracle Database, we encourage you to learn more about Oracle Database@Google Cloud. Oracle has partnered with Google Cloud to make Oracle Exadata infrastructure available in their data centers, offering you low-latency access to Oracle Database software running on Oracle hardware managed by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

You can provision Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless into your Google Cloud projects and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). These assets appear as native resources, allowing you to utilize the same Identity and Access Management (IAM), auditing, monitoring, and automation you already use. The service (and optionally, licensing) is purchased through the Google Cloud Marketplace and counts against your Google Cloud spending commitments, while still supporting Oracle license benefits such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle Support Rewards. To get started, contact our sales team.

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