Oracle Database@AWS Available in Limited Preview
Rhea-AI Summary
Oracle has announced the preview of Oracle Database@AWS in the AWS US East Region. This service enables customers to run Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure within AWS, providing a fully integrated experience for deploying and managing Oracle databases. The offering features low latency network connections between Oracle databases and AWS applications, allowing seamless integration with AWS services including Amazon EC2 and AI/ML capabilities. Customers benefit from unified database administration, billing, support, and can utilize existing AWS commitments and Oracle licenses. The service aims to simplify migration of Oracle Database workloads to the cloud and plans for broader availability in coming months.
Positive
- Integration with AWS services enables customers to leverage existing AWS commitments
- Customers can use existing Oracle licenses and discount programs
- Service provides low latency network connections improving performance
- Unified billing and support system simplifies administration
Negative
- Currently to AWS US East Region only
- Service is only available in preview
Insights
The launch of Oracle Database@AWS marks a significant strategic shift in cloud computing dynamics. This integration addresses a important market gap by bringing Oracle's high-performance database capabilities directly to AWS infrastructure. The key technical advantages include:
- Native integration with AWS services including EC2, analytics and AI/ML tools
- Low-latency network connectivity between Oracle databases and AWS applications
- Support for mission-critical features like Exadata and RAC
This partnership could significantly impact enterprise cloud adoption patterns, particularly for organizations heavily invested in Oracle databases but preferring AWS's cloud ecosystem. The unified billing, support and management experience through AWS Marketplace reduces operational complexity and could accelerate cloud migration decisions.
This strategic partnership represents a major shift in the competitive cloud landscape. Oracle's decision to offer its flagship database service on AWS indicates a pragmatic approach to market realities, acknowledging AWS's dominant position in cloud infrastructure. This move could:
- Expand Oracle's addressable market by tapping into AWS's vast customer base
- Help retain enterprise customers who might otherwise consider alternative database solutions
- Generate new revenue streams through AWS Marketplace
The integration with AWS's AI/ML services, particularly Amazon Bedrock, positions Oracle to capitalize on the growing demand for AI-enabled database capabilities.
Select customers can begin using Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@AWS to simplify the migration and deployment of enterprise workloads to the cloud
Initially announced earlier this year, Oracle Database@AWS allows customers to migrate Oracle Database workloads, including Oracle Exadata and Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC), to the cloud. The offering provides a low latency network connection between Oracle databases and applications on AWS. This makes it easy for customers to connect enterprise data in their Oracle databases to applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Analytics services, or AWS' advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services, including Amazon Bedrock. Oracle will operate and manage Oracle Exadata Database Service.
"Up until now, it has been impossible to replicate the performance and functionality of Oracle Database on Exadata in AWS," said Dave McCarthy, research vice president, IDC. "With Oracle Database@AWS, customers can finally enjoy that same experience with an easy migration path to the cloud for their on-premises mission-critical workloads. This allows them to reap the benefits of simplifying their daily management and operations to prioritize modernization initiatives."
Oracle Database@AWS enables customers to utilize their existing skills and provides a unified experience between OCI and AWS for simplified database administration, billing, and unified customer support, with the security, agility, flexibility, and sustainability benefits provided by AWS. Customers can quickly launch their Oracle Database@AWS experience using familiar tools such as the AWS Management Console. Customers can also benefit from:
- Seamlessly and securely connect and analyze data across Oracle Database services and applications they already have running on AWS to get faster, deeper insights without having to build pipelines.
- Flexible options to simplify and accelerate migrating their Oracle databases to the cloud, including compatibility with proven migration tools such as Oracle Zero Downtime Migration.
- A simplified procurement experience via AWS Marketplace. Customer's usage of Oracle Database@AWS qualifies for their existing AWS commitments and uses their existing Oracle license benefits, including Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and discount programs such as Oracle Support Rewards (OSR).
- A fully unified support experience from both AWS and Oracle, as well as guidance through reference architectures, landing zones, and other collateral for customers to successfully build and run their most trusted enterprise applications in the cloud.
In addition, Oracle Database@AWS will help customers unify their data across Oracle and AWS for analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. This will help customers to build new scalable microservices-based applications and accelerate their time to market for new features by combining Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) with Oracle Database 23ai features, like AI Vector Search.
"We want our customers to have access to our data services and to be able to seamlessly use multiple clouds," said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "This partnership provides a unified way for customers to use the best of Oracle and AWS to take advantage of the latest AI innovations and simplify operations. The introduction of Oracle Exadata Database Service in the AWS US East Region is only the beginning, and we plan to continue to work with AWS to meet customer demand."
Oracle Database@AWS is slated to have broader availability in coming months. The two companies plan to continue to partner and make additional Oracle Database services available.
Additional Resources
- Getting started with Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@AWS
- Learn more about Oracle Database@AWS on the AWS Marketplace
- View purchase options, including limited preview for Oracle Database@AWS
- Learn more about OCI's distributed cloud
- Learn more about Oracle database services, Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, and Oracle Base Database Service
About Oracle Distributed Cloud
Oracle's distributed cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with greater control and flexibility. Oracle's distributed cloud lineup includes:
- Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve any size of organization, including those requiring strict EU sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here.
- Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate
U.S. ,UK , and Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions forU.S. national security purposes. Each of these products provide a full cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign Cloud. - Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60 countries. Additionally, OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, which consists of multiple configurations of ruggedized and portable high-performance devices, helps customers leverage remote AI inferencing at the edge.
- Multicloud: OCI is physically deployed within all the hyperscale cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, providing low latency, natively integrated Oracle database services, including Oracle Database@AWS, Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and Oracle HeatWave on AWS. Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allows customers to combine key capabilities from across clouds.
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.
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