Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, enabling customers to:

  • Migrate Oracle Database workloads to AWS: Customers can now run Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within AWS. They can easily migrate their Oracle Database workloads to Oracle Database@AWS running on OCI in AWS while taking advantage of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and the latest Oracle Database 23ai with embedded AI Vector capabilities.
  • Unify data across Oracle and AWS to innovate: Zero-ETL (extract, transform, and load) integration allows data to flow seamlessly between Oracle Database services and AWS services, giving customers the ability to combine their data with AWS analytics, machine learning, and generative AI services to further enhance their applications.
  • Simplify management and operations: Customers benefit from a unified experience between Oracle and AWS featuring fully integrated support from both companies that simplifies database administration, purchasing, deployment through reference architectures, and more. They can use their existing AWS commitments and Oracle license benefits, including Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and discount programs such as Oracle Support Rewards (OSR) with Oracle Database@AWS.

Oracle Database@AWS is now available in the AWS U.S. East (N. Virginia) and U.S. West (Oregon) Regions, with plans to expand availability to 20 additional AWS Regions around the world.

What industry experts are saying

Commenting on the announcement, leading industry analysts stated the following:

“Organizations running Oracle Autonomous Database on AWS benefit from exclusive cloud functionality such as Oracle Database 23ai, online CPU and Memory scaling, unlimited Oracle Multitenant, Automatic Indexing, Automatic Materialized Views, Automatic Columnar Caching, Automatic AI Vector Acceleration in Storage, Distributed Database with RAFT replication and more than three nodes—and fault-tolerant In-Memory Column Store. Clearly, this GA launch is a win-win for customers, as these myriad number of innovations are now available on AWS to organizations of all sizes.”

—Ron Westfall
Analyst-in-Residence, HyperFrame Research

“The general availability of Oracle Database@AWS completes the hyperscalers’ rollout of Oracle’s multicloud strategy. AWS customers can now access their enterprise data on their Oracle databases using their favorite Amazon analytics and AI services. With Exadata and RAC running on OCI in AWS data centers, Oracle databases can achieve levels of performance and availability not previously experienced by customers in AWS. All in all, the multicloud era proclaimed by Larry Ellison is well on the way.”

—Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research

“GenAI becomes truly useful only when infused with an organization’s data. That’s when it starts yielding contextually relevant and more accurate responses. Oracle Database@AWS, which is now generally available, does just that for Oracle Database users on AWS. Leveraging Oracle Database 23ai’s AI Vector Search, enterprises can combine their internal data with their favorite LLM via Amazon Bedrock and other AWS AI services. This enables Oracle users to readily build GenAI-driven applications such as customer support, fraud detection, real-time shopping offers, or defect detection—all supported by Oracle Database data running on Exadata together with AWS’ AI services and models, both running in the same data center. More broadly, Oracle’s redefinition of multicloud with Oracle Database running right within AWS, as well as within Azure and Google Cloud, expands the art of what’s possible for companies seeking to accelerate their own AI transformation.”

—Bradley Shimmin
Vice President & Practice Lead, Data Intelligence, Analytics & Infrastructure, The Futurum Group

“Oracle Database@AWS delivers a seamless experience, letting customers deploy and manage Oracle databases using familiar AWS tools like the Console, CLI, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch for observability. With integrated backup and DR via Amazon S3, it fits naturally into AWS customers’ cloud operating models. Oracle’s multicloud strategy and native integrations make it easy for AWS users to tap into powerful Oracle technologies. I see this offering as potentially a true industry game changer.”

—Rob Strechay
Managing Director & Principal Analyst, theCUBE Research

“General availability of Oracle Database@AWS just made the cloud database market considerably more interesting. It opens the door for AWS customers to take advantage of the converged Oracle Database’s full spectrum of unique capabilities. Capabilities such as Exadata and Real Application Clusters for availability and performance, full database lifecycle automation in Autonomous Database, AI Vector Search, JSON duality, AI machine learning, GenAI LLM integration, and many others. Customers have been lobbying for this from both Oracle and AWS for years. Now these two industry giants have successfully collaborated to deliver in a way that’s straightforward to consume and use, making it easy for customers to integrate AWS AI and analytics services with Oracle Database. This is how to do customer-centric multicloud.”

—Marc Staimer
President, DSC and Sr. Contributor to theCUBE research

“Oracle Database@AWS brings the exclusive benefits of Oracle Autonomous Database to AWS users worldwide. Organizations can now build new cloud-native applications or enrich existing applications with analytics, machine learning, and AI capabilities with Autonomous Database 23ai. Additionally, they can benefit from higher availability for their workloads, with rolling updates across nodes without shutting down the database or application, with fully automated Data Guard failover between data centers and regions. This is what enterprise customers have been asking for, and AWS and Oracle have delivered it in a big way.”

—Steve McDowell
Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research

“Oracle is redefining what multicloud means for customers. Multicloud typically meant making third-party solutions available across different cloud providers. Because those solutions had to be adapted to the unique infrastructure of each hyperscaler, the experiences for customers often varied by cloud provider. Oracle flipped the equation by offering a fully native experience on its own infrastructure delivered from inside the data centers or each hyperscaler. OCI multicloud customers get the best of both worlds – the native experience working with Oracle-managed databases and native integration to the portfolios of services they already use from the cloud provider of their choice, free of data egress charges.”

—Tony Baer
Principal, dbInsight

“Oracle’s multicloud approach gives customers deployment flexibility in their cloud of choice while preserving their investments. The general availability of Oracle Database@AWS provides a case in point. Using their Oracle license benefits, customers can leverage the power of Oracle Autonomous Database running on high-performance Exadata infrastructure—delivering enhanced scalability and security in a fully managed service. On the AWS side, customers can use their existing AWS commitments for the services they need. Customers can then modernize or build new apps by integrating Oracle’s AI and database capabilities—such as AI Vector Search and Select AI—with AWS’ AI capabilities, such as Amazon Bedrock, with easy access to leading large language models. Oracle continues to push the boundaries of database technology and AI innovation while leading the industry to a multicloud future.”

—Stephen Catanzano
Senior Analyst, Data Platform, Enterprise Strategy Group

“Bringing the full functionality of Oracle Database 23ai to AWS is a major milestone!  Now generally available as OracleDatabase@AWS, this service is a breakthrough both in multicloud architecture and in close collaboration between two major cloud providers: Oracle and AWS. OracleDatabase@AWS brings exceptional benefits to joint customers. They can now take advantage of all of the latest innovations in Oracle Autonomous Database within AWS.  They can integrate their favorite AWS services—such as Redshift for analytics or the latest AWS Nova models for GenAI—while Exadata and RAC deliver their long proven performance, cost efficiency and availability.  Kudos to Oracle and AWS for making their joint customers’ lives easier, not least by eliminating data egress fees.”

—Richard Winter
CEO, WinterCorp.

“Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available in two US regions with 20 more coming soon. With this, Oracle is delivering on its long-standing promise of ‘the same database everywhere’—now fully integrated within the AWS ecosystem. This approach enables customers to combine the scalability and AI services of AWS, such as Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q, with the latest features of Oracle Database. These include always-on encryption, SQL Firewall, and Data Safe for top-grade data protection. The result is a secure and high-performance solution that keeps all data within AWS boundaries, eliminating the usual compromises on latency, cost, and compliance. For many organizations, this marks a significant step forward in making cloud architectures practical and secure.”

—Alexei Balaganski
Lead Analyst & CTO, KuppingerCole Analysts

“Previously Oracle Database could only be run on AWS in a limited way. Now, the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS opens up many possibilities for AWS customers who require the full function of Oracle Database. They can now modernize or develop new cloud-native applications by integrating their enterprise data with their AWS analytics and AI services. With OCI-based Oracle Autonomous Database running on Exadata, customers get the highest OLTP, analytics, and AI vector processing performance possible with Oracle Database and can take advantage of the many AI-powered labor-saving automated data management functions available. Ultimately, this multicloud paradigm implemented by Oracle and AWS delivers business and financial benefits to their mutual customers as they enjoy the simplicity, security, and low latency of a unified operating environment. This is clearly the direction that all cloud providers must follow in order to keep pace.”

—Carl Olofson
Principal Analyst, DBMSGuru LLC

 

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