Oracle Autonomous Database is now generally available on Oracle Database@Azure in the Microsoft Azure East U.S. region, according to oracle.com. Oracle will operate and manage the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Service, marking it as the second Oracle database service to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Azure datacenters. This development aims to bolster application innovation and development velocity.
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 a leading data platform that accommodates various data or development models for any use case, while minimizing complex integrations. This fully-managed option offers application developers access to database services at a massive scale with superior performance, security, and availability.
The Oracle Autonomous Database enhances development velocity with a built-in low code development platform called Oracle APEX, a suite of data engineering tools named Data Studio, an ML notebook interface for data scientists, and easy access to data lakes. It supports the Apache Iceberg open table format and the Delta Share open data sharing protocol. Developers can utilize SQL, JSON documents, graph, geospatial, text, ML, and vector similarity search from a unified interface to quickly build new solutions and add functionality. Additionally, built-in AI capabilities and a choice of large language models (LLMs) further accelerate application innovation.
Oracle Autonomous Database also features AI Vector Search, enabling developers to effortlessly integrate vector data with other structured business data in a single SQL query. This integration facilitates more insightful, efficient, and agile data analysis and decision-making processes.
Benefits of Oracle Database@Azure
Customers leveraging Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure datacenters can benefit from:
- The ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including Azure’s development and AI services.
- Flexible options to simplify and accelerate migrating their Oracle databases to the cloud, including compatibility with migration tools like Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration.
- High-level Oracle database performance, scale, and availability, with feature and pricing parity with OCI.
- 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, reducing 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.
- Assurance of a unified service and architecture tested and supported by Oracle and Microsoft.
“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.”
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