Oracle Autonomous Database Now Generally Available on Oracle Database@Azure
Oracle announced that the Oracle Autonomous Database is now generally available on Oracle Database@Azure in the Microsoft Azure East U.S. region.
The Oracle Autonomous Database, the second Oracle database service to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Azure datacenters, promises to accelerate application innovation and development while simplifying the migration of existing Oracle Databases to the cloud.
This service, initially available via a private offer in the Azure Marketplace, integrates with Azure's portal and APIs, providing a high-performance, secure, and scalable database solution for global organizations.
It also supports various data and development models, includes built-in AI capabilities, and features tools like Oracle APEX and Data Studio.
Oracle highlights the strategic investment as a response to significant customer demand, aiming to provide a unified experience and comprehensive support from both Oracle and Microsoft.
- General availability of Oracle Autonomous Database on Azure improves accessibility for customers.
- Integration with Azure's portal and APIs enhances the user experience.
- Supports diverse data and development models, including AI and machine learning capabilities.
- Offers high performance, security, and scalability, important for mission-critical applications.
- Addresses customer demand for cloud-based Oracle database solutions.
- Facilitates easier and faster migration of existing Oracle databases to the cloud.
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Insights
Oracle's Autonomous Database being generally available on Microsoft Azure marks a significant milestone in cloud computing. By offering their autonomous database on Azure, Oracle integrates its high-performing, fully managed database services directly into Microsoft's infrastructure. This move is strategic, enhancing Oracle's reach and providing customers with more flexibility in managing their workloads.
For developers, the integration means access to a robust data platform with multiple development models and AI capabilities, streamlining application creation and innovation. Tools like Oracle APEX and Data Studio reduce complexity and expedite development, which can attract a wider developer audience. Furthermore, with features like AI Vector Search, developers can process and analyze data more efficiently, making the database a compelling choice for data-intensive applications.
From a technical perspective, the partnership leverages Azure’s global reach and Oracle's specialized database technology, promising high performance, security and availability. This integration simplifies cloud migration processes, especially for enterprises reliant on Oracle’s ecosystem, offering seamless compatibility and unified support from both tech giants.
Oracle's decision to extend their Autonomous Database services to Microsoft Azure can significantly impact their financial outlook. This strategic move allows Oracle to tap into Microsoft's extensive cloud customer base, potentially increasing their market share and recurring revenue streams. The service's general availability may accelerate customer acquisition, particularly among entities seeking to leverage both Oracle's robust database services and Azure's cloud infrastructure.
In financial terms, the cross-platform availability aligns with the growing demand for hybrid cloud solutions, pushing Oracle's cloud revenue growth. Particularly, the offering’s alignment with Azure’s pricing and feature parity ensures competitive positioning against other cloud service providers. Enterprises might find the integrated solution appealing due to simplified migration, operational efficiencies and reduced costs, potentially leading to increased adoption rates.
For retail investors, this partnership could signal a positive outlook for Oracle’s stock, given the increased customer base and revenue diversification opportunities. The collaboration may also foster higher customer retention, contributing to Oracle's long-term financial stability and growth.
The deployment of Oracle Autonomous Database on Microsoft Azure reflects a burgeoning trend in cloud services collaboration. By embedding Oracle's advanced database services into Microsoft's cloud ecosystem, this partnership meets the rising demand for flexible, scalable and secure cloud solutions among global enterprises. This move can be seen as part of a broader industry shift towards interoperability and integrated cloud solutions, aimed at minimizing vendor lock-in and enhancing customer choice.
What stands out is the strategic alignment with Azure's AI and development services, providing a unified platform that simplifies complex IT environments. This consolidation can drive higher customer satisfaction and loyalty, reducing the friction traditionally associated with multi-cloud environments. Moreover, the ability to maintain consistency with on-premises deployments can make this offering particularly attractive to enterprises hesitant to fully transition to the cloud.
For investors, observing the market’s reception and adoption rate of this integrated service will be crucial. The partnership may spur competitive responses from other cloud service providers, potentially leading to more collaborative ventures and innovations within the industry. This positions Oracle favorably in the rapidly evolving cloud services market.
Oracle database services running on Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure are deployed directly in Microsoft Azure datacenters
Oracle Database is the mission-critical database that the largest and most critical enterprises in the world trust with their most important data and applications. Oracle Autonomous Database provides a fully automated and managed Oracle Database service that is integrated with the Azure portal and APIs, enabling global organizations to migrate and run any workloads securely, from the simplest to the most mission-critical. It runs on-top-of Real Application Clusters on Exadata Cloud Infrastructure providing the highest performance, availability, security, and scalability. In addition to scaling up to handle the most demanding applications.
"96 percent of Fortune Global 100 companies and thousands of other leading global organizations rely upon Oracle databases to run their businesses," said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Since launching Oracle Database@Azure, we've received incredible customer demand, which is why we responded with this strategic investment and are now offering the world's first autonomous database to customers in Azure. With Oracle Autonomous Database, organizations can accelerate their data center exit plans and enable Azure developers to build solutions with ease."
Oracle Autonomous Database on OCI in Microsoft Azure Accelerates Development Velocity
With Oracle Autonomous Database running on OCI in Azure datacenters, developers can easily provision an industry-leading data platform that can accommodate any data or development model for any use case, while eliminating or reducing the complex and time-consuming integrations. With this fully-managed and fully featured option, application developers gain access to database services at massive scale with the highest performance, security, and availability characteristics.
Oracle Autonomous Database can accelerate development velocity with a built-in low code development platform called Oracle APEX, a rich set of data engineering tools called Data Studio, an ML notebook interface for data scientists, and easy access to data lakes with support for the Apache Iceberg open table format and the Delta Share open data sharing protocol. Developers can easily utilize SQL, JSON documents, graph, geospatial, text, ML, and vector similarity search from a unified interface and a single database to rapidly build new solutions and add new functionality. In addition, Oracle Autonomous Database can accelerate application innovation with built-in AI capabilities and a developer's choice of LLMs. Developers and data scientists can also easily enable retrieval augmented generation (RAG) across their proprietary unstructured data in various formats (e.g., PDFs, images, videos, and audio clips) with Oracle database's built-in vector processing capabilities, called AI Vector Search. With this feature, developers can easily join vector data to other structured business data in a single SQL query, enabling more insightful, efficient, and agile data analysis and decision-making processes.
With Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure datacenters, customers benefit from:
- The ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including the rich set of Azure development and AI services
- 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 highest level of Oracle database performance, scale and availability, along with feature and pricing parity with OCI
- 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
- 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
- Learn more about innovating with Oracle and Azure
- Learn more about the Oracle and Microsoft partnership
- Read more about the Oracle database services running on OCI in Azure datacenters
- Learn more about Oracle database services, Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, and Oracle Base Database Service
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