1. Oracle will add eight new regions to meet customer demand. 2. Cross-region disaster recovery enhances resiliency for database instances. 3. New capabilities optimize costs for Oracle Database@Google Cloud users. 4. Capacity doubling in key regions supports mission-critical workloads. 5. Customers can leverage existing Oracle licenses for new services.
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AUSTIN, Texas and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle and Google Cloud today announced plans to add eight new regions, as well as powerful new capabilities for Oracle Database@Google Cloud that will help customers fortify database instances, optimize costs, and achieve greater flexibility and resiliency. Additionally, new capabilities will be added including the general availability of cross-region disaster recovery and database replication for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless on Oracle Database@Google Cloud and support for single-node Oracle database deployments on Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure for Oracle Database@Google Cloud.
Oracle Database@Google Cloud enables customers to easily create new cloud applications using the industry-leading Oracle Database or migrate their existing Oracle databases and applications to OCI running in Google Cloud with simplified cloud purchasing and management. Regional availability planned for the next 12 months includes U.S. Central 1 (Iowa), North America-Northeast 1 (Montreal), North America-Northeast 2 (Toronto), Asia-Northeast 1 (Tokyo), Asia-Northeast 2 (Osaka), Asia-South 1 (Mumbai), Asia-South 2 (Delhi), and South America-East 1 (Sao Paulo). To meet growing customer demand, datacenter capacity will also be doubled in regions including London, Frankfurt, and Ashburn in the next 12 months. The new regions and expanded capacity are in addition to Google Cloud regions across U.S. East (Ashburn), U.S. West (Salt Lake City), U.K. South (London), and Germany Central (Frankfurt) that are available today.
"The new capabilities for Oracle Database@Google Cloud are designed to support customers' mission-critical database workloads and overall IT strategies, in a multicloud context," said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle continues to develop OCI's multicloud capabilities with a focus on resiliency, comprehensive capabilities, and the most attractive commercial terms."
"We continue to work closely with Oracle to support our joint customers on their multicloud journeys," said Andi Gutmans, vice president and general manager of databases, Google Cloud. "Oracle Database@Google Cloud's new features will help customers speed up their cloud migrations with increased confidence around mission-critical workloads and cost-effectiveness. By bringing customers' databases closer to Google's AI offerings, customers gain significant benefits such as faster and more efficient AI processing resulting in the ability to rapidly scale AI applications."
Oracle Database@Google Cloud customers can purchase Oracle Database services using their existing Google Cloud commitments and leverage their existing Oracle license benefits, such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle Support Rewards. Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service are available with custom quotes via private offer. Oracle Autonomous Database is also available with usage-based pricing, giving customers the flexibility to deploy a fully managed database in minutes.
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