Dive Brief:
- Oracle made two moves to advance its multicloud strategy Monday, extending existing alliances with Google and AWS, the companies said.
- Oracle will deploy database services running on OCI servers in Google Cloud data centers starting with several North American and European GCP regions. “This new service combines all of the benefits of OCI database services with Google Cloud services for a seamless multicloud experience, which was unthinkable in the cloud space just a few years ago,” OCI SVP Karan Batta said in an announcement.
- The company cemented a similar pact with AWS that brings Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service into the hyperscaler’s data centers. “We are seeing huge demand from customers that want to use multiple clouds,” Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said in a separate announcement.
Dive Insight:
Oracle’s multicloud strategy hinges on infrastructure partnerships with the three largest public cloud providers, all announced in the last year.
The company partnered with Google to eliminate data transfer fees and roll out GCP’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect solution in 11 Oracle cloud regions in June. At the time, Ellison promised further integrations were to come.
“By putting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure hardware in Google Cloud datacenters, customers can benefit from the best possible database and network performance,” Ellison said in the June announcement.
Oracle solidified a similar integration with Microsoft last September, when the two companies installed Oracle Exadata and related OCI hardware in Azure data centers. As of June, Oracle had 11 Azure database sites up and running and a dozen similar sites in the planning stages with Google, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said during the company’s Q4 2024 earnings call.
Oracle has since expanded its Azure footprint to 21 regions, according to a Microsoft announcement Monday.
The Google integration, called Oracle Database@Google Cloud, currently covers data centers in U.S. East and West regions, as well as in the U.K. and Germany. Customers in those regions can run Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service on OCI servers located in Google Cloud data centers.
The integration can help organizations bridge the gap between information storage and the generative AI tools that crave data, according to Carl Olofson, research VP, data management software at IDC.
“Customers can combine data from Oracle databases with Google Cloud services like Gemini foundation models and the Vertex AI development platform to develop and run a new generation of cloud native applications,” Olofson said in the announcement.
Oracle Database@AWS with launch in preview later in the year and achieve broader availability in 2025, the companies said.
