Oracle had made its Database@Azure service now available for customers in Microsoft data centers in Australia.

The two companies have launched the offering from Microsoft's Azure Australia East region in Sydney, giving customers access to the Oracle Database on OCI within Azure.

This is the sixth region to launch, with Oracle Database@Azure also available in Azure's Canada Central, East US, France Central, Germany West Central, and UK South regions.

The two companies plan to "soon" expand the offering to another 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.

“Leading organizations worldwide across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and more have shown strong interest in Oracle Database@Azure,” said Stephen Bovis, regional managing director, Oracle Australia and New Zealand. “This surge in demand highlights the global and local need for business agility and multi-cloud capabilities. A single, unified, and fully automated database optimized for all workloads and data formats is essential to achieving this. With the launch of Oracle Database@Azure in Australia, we are now bringing the benefits of AI and multi-cloud deployments to our mutual customers locally.”

In addition to the new region, Microsoft and Oracle have updated the Oracle Database@Azure solution to include a Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service, have added in preview integration with Microsoft Sentinel - a cloud-native security information and event management system - and will soon offer OCI GoldenGate, a data mesh platform, as a managed service.

Plans for the Oracle Database@Azure were first shared in September 2023, with Oracle announcing it had signed an agreement to colocate its Exadata database-optimized servers and Real Application Clusters in Microsoft Azure data centers.

The offering first went live in the Azure East US region in Virginia in December 2023.

In March 2024, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison revealed that the two companies were working on 20 data center locations, and the company was working on similar partnerships with other cloud providers.

Oracle Database@Google Cloud became generally available earlier this month, with plans first shared in June 2024, along with the launch of the Google Cloud Cross-Cloud Interconnect, which is available in 11 regions and allows customers to deploy general-purpose workloads across both Oracle and Google Cloud's services with no data transfer fees.

Oracle has also announced an Oracle Database@AWS offering, set to be available in a preview format later this year and to be widely available in 2025.