Oracle Cloud is available globally from 38 cloud regions, and we are adding new regions more than twice as fast as other providers. Our goal is to offer regions in proximity to our customers to meet their data sovereignty requirements while providing true disaster protection with multiple geographically distributed cloud regions in every country. We currently have at least two regions in nine countries and the European Union.

Oracle Cloud serves commercial businesses, the U.S. and UK governments, and the U.S. Department of Defense with distinct regions that meet specific security, compliance, and other tenancy requirements.

Oracle also has unique hybrid cloud options, including Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, which offers Oracle Cloud services on the customer’s premises. This solution provides customers access to all cloud services—current and future—the same SLAs for availability, performance, and management, and consistent APIs for simplified management.

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• OCI and US Public Sector
• OCI and UK Public Sector
• HIPAA Assessed Regions and Services
• First principles: shrink wrap the cloud scale

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) next-generation architecture provides a high-performing, resilient foundation for cloud services.

OCI’s physical and virtual network design maximizes performance and security, and enables the fast provisioning and on-demand consumption of more than 80 cloud services, including unique bare metal GPUs, clustered databases (Oracle Real Application Clusters), and Oracle Exadata database-optimized shapes. OCI is the only major provider that offers financially backed performance SLAs for networking, block storage, and storage within compute instances.

Within each cloud region, customers can distribute their applications across at least three fault domains, a grouping of hardware and infrastructure that enables protection against common hardware or power failures, while also supporting rolling maintenance. Multiple availability domains in some regions provide additional resiliency.

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• High Performance Computing on OCI
• Cloud Infrastructure Security
• Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Fault Domains (OCI Documentation)

Each Oracle Cloud region contains at least three fault domains, which are groupings of hardware that form logical data centers for high availability and resilience to hardware and network failures. Some regions (Ashburn, Phoenix, Frankfurt, and London) provide further resilience to entire data centers through multiple availability domains (ADs), which each contain three fault domains.

For business continuity and compliance requirements, Oracle’s unique dual-region cloud strategy enables customers to deploy resilient applications in multiple geographically separated locations—without having sensitive data leave the country. To help customers plan data center deployments to meet application requirements and optimize their cloud infrastructure, OCI provides a no-cost inter-region latency dashboard that provides insights into real-time and historical latency for Oracle Cloud regions around the globe.

Ten geographies—nine countries and the European Union—currently host multiple cloud regions to enable geographic resiliency within their borders. Along with the five cloud regions currently operating in the EU, OCI has at least two cloud regions in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. Additionally, all Oracle Government Cloud realms in the US and UK contain at least two cloud regions.

Additional resources

• Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Learn about protecting your cloud topology against disasters
• Deploy a cross-region disaster recovery solution using RackWare
• Deploy a highly available bare metal database
• Configure cross-region private connectivity between tenancies

OCI offers more than 80 cloud services, with many more on their way. Our cloud services are open, and they embrace industry standards such as Kubernetes, CloudEvents, and Terraform so that customers can enjoy portability, lower overhead, and lower costs. We built our cloud to deliver the performance and scalability customers need to run the most demanding enterprise workloads and modern cloud native applications. For example, we uniquely offer Oracle Autonomous Database—which is optimized for transaction processing, data warehousing, or JSON, with automatic tuning, scaling, and patching—for both existing and new applications.

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• Simplifying modern application development on OCI
• Migrate on-premises Oracle Applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Move, optimize, and extend custom and third-party applications

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides superior cloud services for many workloads and optimizes multicloud operations, especially with Microsoft Azure. Oracle and Microsoft have a strategic partnership that enables joint customers to run workloads across the two clouds.

This partnership provides a low-latency, cross-cloud interconnect between OCI and Azure in 11 regions, federated identity for joint customers to deploy applications across both clouds, and a collaborative support model.

Customers can run full stack applications in a multicloud configuration while maintaining high-performance connectivity without requiring rearchitecture. They can also migrate existing applications or develop cloud native applications that use a mix of OCI and Azure services.

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• Multicloud strategies on OCI
• What is multicloud?
• Hybrid cloud solutions on OCI

Oracle Cloud Regions deliver a sustainable computing platform that is efficient and renewable. Our data centers enable higher utilization rates than on-premises systems. We leverage state-of-the-art intelligent energy management and cooling techniques while providing elastic computing platforms that grow dynamically as needed, eliminating excess capacity builds for future demands.

Oracle’s goal is to achieve 100% renewable energy use in all its OCI data centers by 2025.

By having full visibility and control over the hardware at the end of its useful life in Oracle Cloud, Oracle is also able to repurpose equipment more effectively, harvest spare parts, and maximize the recycling of materials.

Additional resources

• Oracle Clean Cloud OCI Datasheet (PDF)
• 2025 Oracle sustainability goals

Oracle is committed to helping customers operate globally in a fast-changing business environment and to address the challenges of an ever more complex regulatory environment. Oracle Cloud Regions are regularly assessed as part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s compliance programs. We meet more than 80 global, regional, and industry standards including SOC, PCI DSS, HIPAA, HITRUST, and GDPR.

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• Oracle Cloud Compliance

Oracle is also taking advantage of our own infrastructure innovation with Oracle Cloud Applications. For the first time, customers can run applications they migrate, applications they build, and a broad range of horizontal and industry SaaS all out of the same cloud. Oracle Cloud Regions can not only run customer workloads but also offer enterprise SaaS such as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle Human Capital Management, and Oracle Supply Chain Planning, providing unmatched speed, security, and continuity.

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• Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
• Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
• Oracle Supply Chain Planning
• Oracle Marketing
• Oracle Sales
• Oracle Service
• Oracle Industry Solutions