Oracle inks deal with AWS to offer database services

In continuation of its efforts to help enterprises migrate to the cloud, Oracle said it is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer database services on the latter’s infrastructure.

This is Oracle’s third partnership with a hyperscaler to offer its database services on the hyperscaler’s infrastructure.

In September last year, the company started collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers, giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via Azure.

Earlier this year, Oracle signed a similar deal with Google to make its database services more widely available.

The new offering announced at CloudWorld 2024, Oracle Database@AWS, will allow enterprise users to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS.

“Oracle Database@AWS will provide customers with a unified experience between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS, offering simplified database administration, billing, and unified customer support,” the company said.

It added that enterprises will also have the capability to connect enterprise data in their Oracle Database to applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Analytics services, or AWS’s advanced AI and machine learning (ML) services, including Amazon Bedrock.

The partnership, according to the company, is supported by a low latency connection between Oracle databases and applications on AWS, which in turn allows enterprises to take advantage of zero-ETL integration between Oracle Database services and AWS Analytics services, a simplified procurement experience via AWS Marketplace, and integration with Amazon Simple Storage (S3) for backups and recovery.

Further, Oracle said enterprises will be able to use familiar tools such as the AWS Management Console or via command line interface (CLI) as well as AWS CloudFormation.

“They are also able to take advantage of AWS’s multi-Availability Zone architecture, which allows customers to architect their applications across multiple, independent locations allowing them to build and launch workloads with higher levels of availability,” the company said in a statement.

Oracle Database@AWS is expected to be available in preview later in the year with broader availability expected in 2025.

Other updates include expanding the partnership with Google and Microsoft by offering database services across new cloud regions.

According to the company, Oracle Database@Google Cloud can now be used across four regions: US East (Ashburn), US West (Salt Lake City), UK South (London), and Germany Central (Frankfurt).

On the other hand, Oracle Database@Azure is being planned to be expanded across 15 regions, including Brazil South, Central India, Central US, East US 2, Italy North, Japan East, North Europe, South Central US, Southeast Asia, Spain Central, Sweden Central, United Arab Emirates North, West Europe, West US 2, and West US 3. It is currently available in six Microsoft Azure regions — Australia East, Canada Central, East US, France Central, Germany West Central, and UK South.