Oracle Partners with AWS by Subsiding the Longstanding Differences

Highlights:

• The collaboration, according to the firms, combines AWS’s security, agility, and flexibility with Oracle’s unmatched data management experience. The services are expected to go live for general availability before the year is up.
• Oracle’s cloud approach has evolved over the years, with its latest relationship with AWS following previous alliances with Google LLC and Microsoft Corp.

Oracle Corp. partnered with Amazon Web Services Inc., keeping all the longstanding disputes aside. It will bring its Autonomous Database offerings to the biggest cloud infrastructure platform of the world.

The database giant also disclosed that its database services are now widely accessible on the second- and third-largest clouds in the world, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, ahead of Oracle Cloud World this week in Las Vegas.

Users can access the Oracle Autonomous Database and the Oracle Exadata Database Service on dedicated infrastructure of AWS with the addition of Oracle Database@AWS. The new service is designed to give users a seamless experience integrating AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, streamlining tasks like billing and database management with combined customer support.

Users will also benefit from being able to transfer data from Oracle databases to applications hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, as well as from AWS’s analytics and AI services, such as Amazon Bedrock.

The collaboration, according to the firms, combines AWS’s security, agility, and flexibility with Oracle’s unmatched data management experience. The services are expected to go live for general availability before the year is up.

Oracle’s Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Larry Ellison said that the company is witnessing enormous demand from clients who wants to use multiple clouds.

“To meet this demand and give customers the choice and flexibility they want, Amazon and Oracle are seamlessly connecting AWS services with the very latest Oracle Database technology, including the Oracle Autonomous Database,” Larry added.

Matt Garman, the Chief Executive Officer of AWS, added that formalizing a collaboration makes sense as many of the biggest and most security-conscious companies in the world have already opted to use Oracle’s products on AWS. “This new, deeper partnership will provide Oracle Database services within AWS to allow customers to take advantage of the flexibility, reliability, and scalability of the world’s most widely adopted cloud alongside enterprise software they rely on,” he said.

Along with the unified experience—which enables users to control their Oracle databases via the AWS Cloud Console—other advantages include low-latency connectivity, which is made possible by a fast interface between AWS apps and Oracle software, ensuring improved workload scalability and performance.

Furthermore, the connectivity removes the requirement for extract, transform, and load procedures, facilitating trouble-free data transfer between Oracle databases and AWS apps.

According to expert analyst, this development by the companies was long overdue considering that AWS has the most widely used cloud architecture and Oracle leads the world in hosting mission-critical databases.

Dave Vellante said, “The friction customers had to go through to run Oracle on AWS was not insurmountable but certainly unnecessary, so it’s a real positive for customers that Oracle Database will now be a first-class citizen on AWS. This will be a far superior experience because Oracle customers can now much more easily take advantage of AWS cloud-native services from infrastructure to AI tooling. Win for customers and win for both AWS and Oracle.”

Another renowned analyst stated in a Forbes article that the collaboration is a part of the industry’s larger trend toward multi-cloud adoption, with nearly all businesses now depending on several cloud providers to maximize efficiency, manage risk, and guarantee regulatory compliance.

“The Oracle Database@AWS announcement is a strategic move for both Oracle and AWS,” the analyst said. “For Oracle, it enhances the accessibility and adoption of its database services. For AWS, it expands its portfolio to attract new enterprise customers. For the cloud computing market, the collaboration is a strong step towards simplifying management and reducing operational complexity.”

Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure catalyze their collaboration

Oracle’s cloud approach has evolved over the years, with the latest relationship with AWS coming after previous alliances with Google LLC and Microsoft Corp. The database giant declared earlier this year that it would be introducing Oracle Database@Azure and Oracle Database@Google Cloud services for their respective cloud platforms.

Oracle Database@Google Cloud, which was initially introduced in June, is now broadly available in four Google Cloud regions: US East (Ashburn, Virginia), US West (Salt Lake City, Utah), UK South (London), and Germany Central (Frankfurt), according to a separate announcement made by the firm recently.

Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service will now be available for use on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Google Cloud’s data centers for customers of the cloud computing company. The latter is an Oracle Exadata Database Service entirely managed data protection offering.

Furthermore, Oracle said that users can easily access Google’s vast AI development capabilities while running their apps on Oracle Linux on Google Cloud. According to the statement, by running two clouds as one and retaining feature parity with OCI, the collaboration would enable quicker insights and provide entrepreneurial truth to data.

One of the most intriguing things for users, according to the well-known analyst, is that Oracle data can be used with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI development platform and its potent Gemini large language models.

“Oracle and Google Cloud’s mutual customers are the ultimate winners in this multi-cloud strategy, as they benefit from the simplicity, security, and low latency of a unified operating environment,” the analyst said.

Lastly, Oracle stated that six Azure cloud zones will be the launch locations for the Oracle Database@Azure service, first revealed last year. The Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery and Oracle Exadata are now accessible to clients through Azure’s Canada Central, Australia East, France Central, East US, UK South, and Germany West Central regions.

Furthermore, Oracle announced that it will bring new fully managed heterogeneous data integration services and database replication to Database@Azure. These will provide feature equivalence with OCI GoldenGate and allow integrations with Microsoft Fabric and OneLake.