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Multicloud with OCI and Azure

Oracle’s partnership with Microsoft gives you more choices for multicloud architecture. By securely connecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Microsoft Azure over low-latency Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure and simplifying access to enterprise-grade Oracle databases with Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure, customers can use the best capabilities of both clouds.


Building on our ongoing multicloud innovation strategy, we are pleased to announce Oracle Database Service for Azure.

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OCI is recognized as a Visionary in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services.

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Changing the future, together

Changing the future, together

Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella launch Oracle Database Service for Azure, bringing the enterprise-grade performance, availability, and automation of Oracle databases to Azure customers.

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OCI and Azure multicloud partnership simplifies data accessibility

“Having access to data in multiple clouds is something we’ve always wanted. Oracle Database Service for Azure would enable FedEx to use Oracle databases on OCI with big data and analytics capabilities of Azure.”

—Rob Carter
Executive Vice President, FedEx Corporation

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Oracle Database Service for Azure integrates capabilities of OCI and Azure

“Multicloud architectures enable us to choose the best cloud provider for each workload based on capabilities, performance, and price. The OCI and Azure partnership integrates the capabilities of two major cloud providers, including OCI’s Oracle Database services and Azure's application development capabilities.”

—Naveen Manga
CTO, Marriott International

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Multicloud architectures enable a best-of-breed approach to cloud modernization

“Innovation is core to GE, and multicloud deployments enable us to innovate at scale. With Oracle Database services, we will be able to use highly available Oracle databases across cloud providers without refactoring our applications.”

—Angelica Tritzo
CIO, GE Renewable Energy

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TIM Brasil selects Oracle and Microsoft to migrate all data center workloads

“Our proposal is to take the customer’s experience to a new level with more efficiency and agility—and always with the highest levels of security.”

—Pietro Labriola
CEO, TIM Brasil

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Integra LifeSciences increases performance by up to 140% with OCI-Azure multicloud deployment

“As a customer, we reap significant benefits from this level of cooperation between Oracle and Microsoft.”

—Peter Gawroniak
Senior Director of Infrastructure and Operations, Integra LifeSciences

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MESTEC lifts factory performance with Oracle and Azure

With Oracle Autonomous Database and the Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect, MESTEC cut its labor and infrastructure costs in half compared to its on-premises environment, and workloads run up to 600% faster with half as many CPUs.

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Snap Vision helps retailers sell smarter with OCI’s Kubernetes and Azure Interconnect

With the OCI-Azure Interconnect, Snap Vision is able to run testing and development on Azure and production-ready workloads on OCI. The company finds that Oracle’s partnership with Microsoft makes a multicloud approach easier and was able to drop hosting costs by 40%.

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Oracle Database Service for Azure

Oracle Database Service for Azure is an Oracle-managed multicloud service that enables customers to easily set up and use high performance, scalable Oracle databases running on OCI for their Azure applications. Azure customers can quickly deploy Oracle Database running on OCI through the Oracle Database Service for Azure portal using a streamlined experience for establishing low latency OCI-Azure connectivity, virtual networks, and federated identity management. Database logs and metrics from OCI integrate into Azure to simplify monitoring and operation management. Customers can initiate support requests for the environment through either Microsoft or Oracle.


Oracle Database Service for Azure diagram
The diagram shows Microsoft Azure on the left and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on the right. The Azure section includes icons for a user, Azure Active Directory, Azure Log Analytics, Azure App Insights, applications, and Azure ExpressRoute. The Oracle section includes icons for Oracle Database Service for Azure, OCI identity services, Exadata Database Service, Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave, Base Database Service, and OCI FastConnect. The network link from Azure to OCI is labeled "OCI-Azure Interconnect Private Tunnel."

Interconnect technology integration

By using Oracle FastConnect and Azure ExpressRoute, customers can seamlessly build a private interconnection between their OCI and Microsoft Azure environments. The Oracle Interconnect for Azure 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 and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. 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.

  • Direct connection between cloud vendors.
  • Latency of less than two milliseconds for traffic between OCI and Microsoft Azure.
  • Pricing is based solely on port capacities for OCI FastConnect and Azure ExpressRoute Local circuit.
  • No charges for data ingress or egress

Oracle Interconnect for Azure diagram
The diagram shows a Microsoft Azure region on the left and an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region on the right. An icon for a virtual network gateway in the Microsoft Azure region is linked to an icon for a dynamic routing gateway in the OCI region. The link is described in the diagram as “ExpressRoute + FastConnect.”

Collaborative support

Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect offer a seamless issue resolution process that can be initiated through Microsoft or Oracle when an issue is encountered. Oracle delivers support directly to customers with Oracle software licenses who are running Oracle software on Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure.

  • Raise issues with Oracle or Microsoft.
  • Joint resolution by both cloud vendors.
  • Oracle support will request a customer’s permission to engage with Microsoft directly; a similar resolution model applies to Microsoft.
Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect issue resolution diagram
The diagram shows icons for the issue resolution process that can be initiated through Microsoft or Oracle. Customers can contact Oracle to have their entitlement validated and then be put in touch with an Oracle employee who can troubleshoot and resolve the issue. If the issue isn’t with an Oracle product, an Oracle employee will request to engage Microsoft on the customer's behalf.
  • Oracle and Microsoft are leading the way by delivering multicloud solutions that automate the most common provisioning tasks.
    Dave McCarthy, Research Vice President, IDC
  • The OCI-Azure cloud collaboration shows the industry how multicloud should be done.
    R “Ray" Wang, Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
  • Oracle Database Service for Azure provides Azure users with the familiar Azure interface to both Azure and OCI resources.
    Marc Staimer, Senior Analyst, Wikibon
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With Oracle Database Service for Azure, your database resources reside in an OCI account that’s linked to your Azure account through an Oracle-managed private cross-cloud interconnect. You need a current Azure account to use Oracle Database Service for Azure.

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Announcing Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure

Today at Microsoft Inspire, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, and Larry Ellison, chairman and CTO of Oracle Corporation, announced the availability of Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure.

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