Oracle Database@Google Cloud Achieves MAA Gold: Expanding Mission-Critical Availability

In today’s digital age, unwavering data availability is essential. Businesses rely on their database infrastructure; any disruption leads to losses and damaged reputations. Oracle and Google have partnered to provide a multicloud solution, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, combining Oracle’s database technology with Google Cloud’s infrastructure.

This partnership has reached a new milestone: Oracle Database@Google Cloud has attained the Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Silver and Gold Tier certifications, confirming its ability to deliver high resilience for critical Oracle workloads in the cloud, ensuring near-zero downtime and comprehensive data protection.

Oracle’s MAA offers a structured approach to database availability, with tiers that include Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. The Gold Tier is designed for mission-critical applications requiring the highest availability. Gold Tier certification means recovery from outages in seconds to under a minute recovery time objective (RTO) with the lowest recovery point objective (RPO), translating to a 99.995% uptime service level objective (SLO). This resilience protects against hardware failures and regional disasters, relying on Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and data replication using Oracle Active Data Guard.

Oracle MAA Gold Cross-Regional Diagram

The MAA Gold Tier achievement for Oracle Database@Google Cloud applies to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure. The platform is built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within Google Cloud data centers, providing high performance and low latency. Key features contributing to this certification include:

• Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, leveraging the high availability and performance of Exadata, Oracle’s premier platform for Oracle databases.
• Oracle Database Autonomous Recovery Service, to minimize the backup workload on the database using the incremental forever backup strategy that eliminates weekly full backups. Additionally, it enables a faster restore and recovery by creating a virtual full backup copy that eliminates the need to recover incremental backups.

Achieving the MAA Gold Tier on Oracle Database@Google Cloud offers several benefits:

• Enhanced business continuity, ensuring uninterrupted operations.
• Improved data protection and resilience with uncompromised data integrity and rapid recovery.
• Simplified management through integration with Google Cloud’s tools.
• Increased confidence in mission-critical applications.

This achievement highlights the strong partnership between Oracle and Google, providing a robust, highly available, and flexible multicloud solution. This partnership caters to the growing trend of multicloud adoption, combining Oracle’s database expertise with Google Cloud’s infrastructure.

The MAA Gold Tier certification benefits various industries:

• Financial services: Ensures regulatory compliance and continuous operation.
• Healthcare: Supports patient care and sensitive data with high availability.
• E-commerce: Maintains continuous service during peak periods.
• Manufacturing: Provides reliability for production systems and supply chains.
• Global enterprises: Offers robust disaster recovery across regions.

Comparison of MAA tiers:

Oracle Zero Downtime Migration

Oracle Zero Downtime Migration is a free migration solution trusted by customers worldwide that simplifies and automates Oracle database migrations, including those requiring minimal downtime. Following Oracle MAA best practices, Zero Downtime Migration provides pre-validation and controllable automation for a single database or database fleet migrations to Oracle Database@Google Cloud. Zero Downtime Migration supports Oracle database migrations to Oracle Database@Google Cloud with physical and logical migration workflows. See Oracle Zero Downtime Migration for Oracle Database@Google Cloud Migrations.

Conclusion

The MAA Gold Tier certification for Oracle Database@Google Cloud signifies a platform with minimal downtime, advanced data protection, and simplified management. It’s a leading solution for organizations prioritizing database availability and business continuity in the multicloud era.

To learn more, see Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture for Oracle Database@Google Cloud.