Oracle Database@Azure

Accelerate innovation and cloud migration with Oracle AI Database services running in Microsoft Azure. Quickly build and modernize applications with capabilities such as AI Vector Search in Oracle AI Database and Azure AI services.

Oracle Database@Azure Overview (2:14)

Oracle and Microsoft announce the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure

This deployment option lets you provision and manage smaller database workloads and scale as needed while giving you the performance, reliability, and availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service with extremely low minimum infrastructure costs.

Benefits of Oracle Database@Azure

Innovate with OCI’s Oracle AI Database services running in Microsoft Azure

  • Build new cloud native apps using Azure services, such as Azure Kubernetes, with Oracle Autonomous AI Database.
  • Enhance existing apps with natural language and other generative AI capabilities.
  • Quickly react to business demands using one converged, fully automated database that’s optimized for all workloads and data formats.
Learn more about innovation opportunities (4:31)
Develop applications with Oracle Autonomous Database, accessible natively from Microsoft Azure.

Migrate Oracle AI database workloads to Microsoft Azure

  • Simplify workload migration and consolidation via full compatibility with on-premises Oracle database and Oracle Exadata deployments.
  • Experience the same high levels of Oracle database performance, security, and availability as in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and benefit from unique optimizations for transaction processing, analytics, and mixed workloads.
  • Migrate on-premises databases to Oracle Database@Azure using Oracle’s proven migration solutions.
Learn more about database migration
Provision Oracle Database services from the Microsoft Azure console.

Simplify management and operations

  • Purchase Oracle AI Database services through the Azure Marketplace using your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitments (MACCs) and get a single bill for Oracle AI Database and Microsoft Azure services.
  • Use existing Oracle AI Database licenses and accrue the same Oracle Support Rewards as when using OCI directly.
  • Automate manual administrative tasks such as database provisioning, backups, and monitoring.
Learn more about purchasing
Purchase Oracle Database@Azure through the Azure Marketplace.

What customers are saying about Oracle Database@Azure

  • “Our customer base of Fortune 100 companies and more than 600 government and transportation agencies depend on us to help streamline their business processes and end-user interactions, which makes transaction speed a top priority. With Oracle Database@Azure, we’ve been able to leverage cross-cloud low latency to improve application performance and streamline the management of our IT infrastructure. This helps us deliver solutions and services that improve clients’ operations, increase efficiencies, reduce costs, and enhance the customer experience.”

    – Mark Prout
    Chief Technology and Information Officer, Conduent, Inc.
  • “We operate within a diverse software landscape, with a significant portion of our applications relying on Oracle Database technology. Oracle Database@Azure delivers low-latency connectivity to our applications running in Azure. We’ve reduced complexity while gaining a cost and performance structure that can scale with our growth, helping us concentrate more on product development and innovation.”

    – John Helsmoortel
    Chief Technology Officer, Liantis
  • “Data is the lifeblood of any business, and the cloud is the best way to analyze it so that insights become actionable. As one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world with a market value of over US$200 billion, the ability to run our mission-critical systems and associated data in the cloud with Oracle Database@Azure gives us a scaled strategic advantage across our global operations.”

    – Magesh Bagavathi
    Senior Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer, PepsiCo
  • “We are looking to our technology partners to support Vodafone’s strategic focus on customers, simplicity, and growth across Europe and Africa. This new offering from Oracle and Microsoft does that by enabling us to deliver innovative and differentiated digital services faster and more cost-effectively to our customers.”

    – Scott Petty
    Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone

How Oracle Database@Azure works


How Oracle Database for Azure works diagram, description below
The diagram shows Azure customers will be able to procure, deploy, and use Oracle Database@Azure with the Azure portal and APIs.

Accelerate innovation and supercharge database applications with Oracle AI Database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure running in Microsoft Azure. Gain deeper and faster insights by combining capabilities such as Azure AI services and Oracle AI Database. Run your Oracle database workloads with the highest performance, security, and availability while benefiting from a frictionless end-to-end experience across purchasing, operations, and collaborative support.

Oracle Database@Azure regions

See the list of OCI services available in the regions

North America Latin America Europe Middle East and Africa Asia Pacific
Live regions
Central US Brazil South France Central UAE North Australia East
East US Germany West Central UAE Central Australia Southeast
East US 2 Germany North Central India
South Central US Italy North Japan West
West US UK South Japan East
West US 2 UK West Southeast Asia
West US 3 Switzerland North
Canada Central Sweden Central
Canada East North Europe
Spain Central
Coming soon
North Central US Brazil Southeast France South South India
West Europe

Oracle Database@Azure use cases

Migrating on-premises workloads to Oracle Database@Azure

Migrate and run mission-critical Oracle AI Database workloads in Azure as you would on Oracle Exadata on-premises or on OCI. Use proven database migration solutions and strategies. Combine existing Azure and Oracle skills to simplify operations.


Migrating on-premises workloads to Oracle Database@Azure diagram, description below
Run mission-critical Oracle Database workloads in Azure as you would on Oracle Exadata on-premises infrastructure. Modernize and innovate with Oracle and Azure services. Simplify purchasing through Azure credits or Oracle Universal Credits. Combine existing Azure and Oracle skills to simplify operations.

Modernize and innovate on-premises workloads with Oracle Database@Azure

Modernize and innovate with cloud native apps using Oracle database services and Azure resources. Combine Microsoft Cloud capabilities and Azure application development tools and frameworks with the power of Oracle database services. Leverage Azure DevOps to modernize development and deployment.


On-premises modernization diagram diagram, description below
Migrate databases and applications to Oracle Database@Azure. Use Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure DevOps to modernize your app's lifecycle with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools in the cloud.

Migrate on-premises data analytics to Oracle Database@Azure

Migrate and run data analytics applications in Azure. Combine Azure analytics capabilities with the highest performing and most scalable Oracle database cloud services. Gain immediate and actionable insights from your data.


Migrate on-premises data analytics to Oracle Database@Azure diagram, description below
Migrate and run data analytics applications in Azure. Combine Azure analytics capabilities with the highest performing and most scalable Oracle database cloud services. Gain immediate and actionable insights from your data.

See what top industry analysts are saying about Oracle Database@Azure