Oracle Interconnect for Azure
Microsoft and Oracle have partnered to create a first-of-its-kind, interconnected cloud experience. Now you can get a low-latency, high-throughput, private connection between two leading cloud providers, allowing you to use the best of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Microsoft Azure with seamless interoperability.
Announcing Oracle Database@Azure
Oracle Database@Azure will be available in the East US region starting in December 2023. Future expansion is planned globally. Move Oracle databases to the cloud for the highest levels of performance and availability with Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deployed in Microsoft Azure.
“Oracle and Microsoft have many mutual customers across all verticals. With the partnership and interconnect, joint customers can migrate their workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Microsoft Azure without the need for complex re-architecture or re-platforming.”
Why use Oracle Interconnect for Azure
Combine the capabilities of two leading cloud vendors
Innovate using the best combination of Oracle’s and Microsoft’s cloud services based on their features, performance, and pricing.
Use private, low-latency connectivity
Use a direct interconnection between OCI and Microsoft Azure that provides less than two miliseconds of latency for superior multicloud network performance.
Run Azure-based applications with high-speed Oracle databases
Maximize application performance by connecting directly to Oracle Autonomous Database, Exadata Database Service, and MySQL HeatWave environments in OCI.
Unify data management across clouds
Run applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite, on OCI with distributed data stores on OCI and Microsoft Azure.
Oracle Interconnect for Azure features
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Cost-effective connectivity
There are no additional charges for using Oracle Interconnect for Azure or moving data between OCI and Azure.
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High throughput
Integra LifeSciences uses the Interconnect to transfer terabytes of data nightly.
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Collaborative support
Raise issues with My Oracle Support. Both support organizations quickly engage to resolve issues.
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Automation with Terraform
Automate provisioning using resources from OCI Architecture Center and Microsoft Azure.
Oracle data centers are distributed around the world.
| Region | Current Regions | Regions Coming soon | Azure Interconnect |
|---|---|---|---|
| North America | 13 | 0 | 4 |
| South America | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Europe | 15 | 0 | 3 |
| Middle East & Africa | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Asia Pacific | 9 | 1 | 3 |
Explore Oracle Interconnect for Azure
Technology integration
By using Oracle FastConnect and Azure ExpressRoute, customers can seamlessly build a private interconnection between their OCI and Microsoft Azure environments. The interconnect also enables joint customers to take advantage of a unified identity and access management platform that leads to cost savings. Cloud engineers can set up single sign-on (SSO) between Microsoft Azure and OCI for their Oracle applications, such as PeopleSoft, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and E-Business Suite. Having a federated SSO makes the integration seamless and lets users authenticate only once to access multiple applications, without signing in separately to access each application.
- About two milliseconds of round-trip latency for traffic between OCI and Microsoft Azure
- Pricing based solely on port capacities for OCI FastConnect and Azure ExpressRoute Local Circuit
Application interoperability
With Oracle Interconnect for Azure, customers can access tested, validated, and supported deployments for packaged, cloud native, custom, and third-party applications to assist with ongoing innovation while leveraging current environments. The traffic between Azure and Oracle Cloud flows directly through the private physical connection with round-trip latency of about two milliseconds. Customers can further restrict the flow of traffic by using network security groups (NSGs) and security lists.
- Deploy Oracle Autonomous Database on OCI and Microsoft Power BI on Microsoft Azure.
- Deploy Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI and Microsoft Azure front end.
- Deploy MySQL Database Service with HeatWave on OCI and microservices-based applications on Microsoft Azure.
- Deploy Oracle WebLogic and Oracle Database on OCI and connect it to a .Net application and Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Azure.
Collaborative support model
Oracle Interconnect for Azure offers a seamless issue resolution process that can be initiated through Microsoft or Oracle when an issue is encountered. For customers who have Oracle software licenses and support, Oracle delivers support directly to customers who are running Oracle software on Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure. As additional services are launched because of this partnership, more details on the support model will be shared.
- Raise issues with Oracle or Microsoft.
- Joint resolution is offered by both cloud vendors.
- Oracle support will request the customer’s permission to engage with Microsoft directly; a similar resolution model applies to Microsoft.
Networking use cases
Explore the Oracle Interconnect for Azure networking use cases to support multicloud connectivity. Microsoft and Oracle have copublished several solutions to assist multicloud customers using the interconnect and to enable network connectivity using validated patterns.
- Extend the OCI-Azure interconnect using Azure Virtual WAN.
- Enable Azure and OCI interconnectivity using ExpressRoute and region peering.
- Enable the OCI-Azure interconnect and secure your traffic using a network virtual appliance (NVA).
Disaster recovery (DR)
To enable customers to deploy an effective DR architecture, Oracle is working toward providing more than one interconnect region in each geographic region, such as US East and US West in North America. Every interconnect circuit (ExpressRoute and FastConnect) comes with a redundant circuit on the same POP but a different physical router, providing high availability.
- The cost of Azure ExpressRoute varies across regions. Oracle recommends using the Local setting, which has no separate ingress or egress charges.
Oracle Interconnect for Azure reference architectures
Oracle and Azure multicloud customer successes
Additional OCI resources
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Read OCI-Azure interconnect blog posts
See the latest updates on Oracle Interconnect for Azure. Get the latest infrastructure as a service announcements, IaaS customer and partner insights, and enterprise cloud news on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure blog.
Featured blogs
- Step-by-step guide: Interconnecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure
- Best practices for Azure Synapse Analytics and Oracle Exadata Cloud service using Oracle Database Service for Azure
- Network latency using OCI-Azure interconnect and best practices
- Oracle Database Service for Azure versus the OCI-Azure interconnect
- New Oracle Data Safe reference architectures to quickly secure your databases
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Configuring Virtual Cloud Network Peering
In this lab you will explore VCN peering by creating 2 compute instances and configuring routing.
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Configuring NAT Gateway for Private Compute Instance Workshop
In this lab you will set up a highly scalable, secure, and fully managed NAT gateway in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
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Get Started with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Core Services
In this lab you will explore basic OCI services: networking, compute, storage and more.
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Configuring Private DNS
In this lab you will learn how to set up Private DNS zones views and resolvers
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