Oracle and Microsoft are now offering Oracle Database@Azure to customers in Southeast Asia. With the services’ debut in the Microsoft Azure Southeast Asia region, customers gain all the performance, resiliency, security, scale, and workload availability advantages of Oracle Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) combined with Azure’s enterprise-grade solutions for AI, analytics, security, and applications to unlock innovation and agility. To meet rapidly growing global demand, Oracle and Microsoft continue to make Oracle Database@Azure available in more regions across the world and add new services. Oracle Database@Azure is now available in 13 regions, with 19 more planned.

Customers have the ability to deploy their Oracle Database services alongside Azure services natively from the same physical datacenters, including support for Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database, both running Real Application Clusters on Oracle Exadata. Oracle and Microsoft’s joint support model provides rapid response and resolution for mission-critical workloads.

Powerful Cloud Database Service Expands to Meet Global Demand

Oracle Database@Azure is now available in 13 regions—Australia East, Brazil South, Canada Central, Central US, East US, France Central, Germany West Central, Italy North, Japan East, Southeast Asia, UK South, UK West, and West US.

In addition, the service is planned to be available in 19 more regions. This includes Australia Southeast, Brazil Southeast, Canada East, Central India, East US 2, France South, Japan West, Germany North, North Central US, North Europe, South Central US, South India, Spain Central, Sweden Central, UAE Central, UAE North, West Europe, West US 2, and West US 3.

“Leading organizations in Southeast Asia spanning financial services, telecommunications, and beyond have shown strong interest in Oracle Database@Azure and multicloud capabilities,” said Chin Ying Loong, regional managing director, ASEAN & SAGE, Oracle. “With the launch of Oracle Database@Azure in Southeast Asia, we are excited to bring the benefits of AI and multicloud deployments to our mutual customers in the region.”

“Expanding our collaboration with Oracle in Singapore underscores our joint commitment to deliver best-in-class solutions and support organizations in Southeast Asia as they migrate their workloads to a globally scalable cloud infrastructure,” said Lee Hui Li, Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore. “By leveraging Oracle Database@Azure, our customers can now access the latest AI innovations and multicloud capabilities to drive operational efficiencies.”

Multicloud Made for Customers

Customers can purchase Oracle Database@Azure through the Azure Marketplace. They can use existing Azure commitments and discount programs, and their Oracle license benefits such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle Support Rewards. Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service are available with custom quotes via private offer. Oracle Autonomous Database is also available as pay-as-you-go, giving customers the flexibility to deploy a fully managed database in minutes.

With Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure datacenters, customers benefit from:

• Flexible options to simplify and accelerate migrating their Oracle databases to the cloud, including compatibility with proven migration tools such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration
• The ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including the rich set of Azure development and AI services
• Pricing parity with OCI for the highest level of Oracle Database performance, scale, and availability only possible through Oracle Exadata engineered systems underpinning Oracle Database@Azure
• The simplicity, security, and low latency to build integrated solutions with Autonomous Database and Azure services
• Consistency with on-premises deployments of Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata to reduce the need to rearchitect or refactor solutions
• Unified customer experience and support from Oracle and Microsoft
• Simplified purchasing and the ability to leverage Oracle and Microsoft licenses, commitments, and discount programs
• Validated Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure
• The assurance of a unified service and architecture that are tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in the cloud

Additional Resources

• Learn more about Oracle Database@Azure
• Read about Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure
• Learn more about Oracle Database services, Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Base Database Service
• Learn about innovating with Oracle and Azure

About Oracle Distributed Cloud

Oracle’s distributed cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with greater control and flexibility. Oracle’s distributed cloud lineup includes:

• Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve any size of organization, including those requiring strict EU sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here.
• Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for national security purposes. Each of these products provides a full cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign Cloud.
• Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60 countries. Additionally, OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, which consists of multiple configurations of ruggedized and portable high-performance devices, helps customers leverage remote AI inferencing at the edge.
• Multicloud: OCI is physically deployed within all the hyperscale cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, providing low latency, natively integrated Oracle database services, including Oracle Database@AWS, Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and Oracle HeatWave on AWS. Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allows customers to combine key capabilities from across clouds.