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Today’s Microsoft enterprise customers are looking to accelerate their migration to the cloud so they can modernize their IT environments and take advantage of Azure infrastructure, tooling, and services. Oracle customers are looking for:

• PERFORMANCE: The highest level of Oracle database performance, scale, and availability, as well as feature and pricing parity
• SECURITY: The simplicity, security, and latency of a single operating environment (datacenter) within Azure
• APP & AI SERVICES: The ability to build new cloud native applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including Azure’s best-in-class AI services
• SUPPORT: The assurance of an architecture that is tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in the cloud

NATIVE ORACLE DATABASE SERVICES IN MICROSOFT AZURE
That’s why we are expanding our partnership with Oracle, enabling Oracle’s 430,000 customers[i] to apply the unique services of the Microsoft cloud to Oracle’s mission-critical databases through a new service, “Oracle Database@Azure”.

Oracle Database@Azure delivers all the performance, scale, and workload availability advantages of Oracle Database on OCI with the security, flexibility, and best-in-class services of Microsoft Azure, including best-in-class AI services like Azure OpenAI. This combination provides customers with more flexibility regarding where they run their workloads. It also provides a streamlined environment that simplifies cloud purchasing and management between Oracle Database and Azure services.

With this new offering, Azure is the only cloud provider other than Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to host Oracle services, including Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Azure datacenters.

Our deep partnership with Oracle continues to focus on reducing the common hurdles customers face when migrating workloads to the public cloud. Oracle Database@Azure is our new offering to bring Oracle Database services inside Azure. With the ability for customers to migrate Oracle databases “as is” to OCI and deploy them in Azure alongside their current workloads in the Microsoft Cloud, organizations can create new solutions and further competitive differentiation.

VIDEO: Watch Oracle Chairman & CTO, Larry Ellison & Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talk with Alysa Taylor, Microsoft CVP of Azure & Industry about this revolutionary new offering from Oracle & Microsoft.

(Fun Fact: This is the first time Larry Ellison has ever set foot on Microsoft’s campus.)

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For more information, on this exciting new announcement, please visit:

• Azure.com/oracle: “Migration and modernization for Oracle workloads”
• Oracle.com/azure: “Oracle and Microsoft expand partnership to deliver Oracle database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure”
• Partnership news page: “Accelerating cloud transformation with Microsoft and Oracle”
• Press release: “Microsoft and Oracle expand partnership to deliver Oracle Database Services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure”
• Announcement blog: “Microsoft expands partnership with Oracle to bring customers’ mission-critical database workloads to Azure”