- The unique region strategy, sustainability and next-generation cloud architecture help customers with their compliance and business continuity requirements.
- Oracle now has 30 cloud regions worldwide, the fastest expanding of any cloud provider.
- The company's decision aims to improve investments in the countries where it operates and achieve triple-digit growth.
Oracle announced on October 11th the plan to expand its presence with cloud regions around the world in order to meet the strong demand of customers working with services in Oracle cloud. Next year, the company will open 14 cloud regions in Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. The next cloud regions include Milan (Italy), Stockholm (Sweden), Marseille (France), Spain, Singapore, Johannesburg (South Africa), Jerusalem (Israel), Mexico and Colombia. In addition, second regions will be opened in countries that they already have, being Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Saudi Arabia, France, Israel and Chile. Oracle plans to have at least 44 cloud regions by the end of 2022, continuing the fastest expansion of any major cloud provider.
Oracle offers a broad and consistent set of cloud services spread across today's 30 commercial and government cloud regions, located in 14 countries on five continents, to serve its growing customer base. It should also be noted that the OCI currently operates in 23 commercial and seven government regions, in addition to several dedicated and national security regions.
“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has seen stellar growth over the past year,” said Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “We've introduced hundreds of new services and capabilities into the cloud and continue to see organizations around the world increasingly turning to OCI to run their critical workloads in the cloud. Thanks to the additional cloud regions, more organizations will be able to use the new cloud services to support their growth,” he said.
To help customers achieve true business continuity and disaster protection while meeting country data residency requirements, Oracle plans to establish at least two cloud regions in nearly every country in which it operates. The United States, Canada, United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, India and Australia already have two cloud regions.
Oracle's strategy is to reach customers exactly where they are located, allowing them to keep data and services where they need it. Users can deploy Oracle Cloud entirely in their own data centers with Dedicated Region and ExadataCloud@Customer, thus being able to deploy cloud services locally with public cloud-based management or deploy cloud services remotely with Roving Edge Infrastructure.
“Announcing the start of operation of new cloud regions in Latin America means a lot to all of us. Our customers gain much more efficiency, agility and security. Furthermore, it is a milestone that reflects our entire culture, our mantra: contribution to society. I'm not just talking about the positive impact of the advanced technology we offer, but about attitudes and actions for transformation on several fronts: education, entrepreneurship, diversity and a lot of inclusion. This is our real commitment,” said Rodrigo Galvão, senior vice president of Technology at Oracle Latin America.
“Having more and more cloud regions in Latin America reinforces how important it is, how strategic and has growth potential. Our customers in Brazil can enjoy our two OCI regions in the country, as well as other neighboring countries, and have access to a global structure that allows the growth of their operations without borders.”, says Alexandre Maioral, president of Oracle Brazil .
High Availability Cloud Strategy, Disaster Protection, and Dual Region
OCI's next-generation architecture provides a resilient, high-performance foundation for cloud services, while its physical and virtual network design maximizes performance and security. For example, each Oracle Cloud region contains at least three Fault Domains, which are groupings of hardware that form logical data centers for high availability and resilience against hardware and network failures. Some regions (Ashburn, Phoenix, Frankfurt, and London) support entire data centers across multiple Availability Domains (ADs), each containing three Fault Domains.
For business continuity and legal requirements, Oracle's unique dual-region cloud strategy allows customers to deploy resilient applications across multiple geographically separate locations without sensitive data leaving the country. OCI provides a no-cost cross-region latency dashboard that provides real-time information on historical latency and for Oracle cloud regions worldwide to help customers plan data center deployment to meet data center requirements. applications and optimize your cloud infrastructure.
Sustainability
Oracle is focused on sustainability and is committed to providing 100% renewable energy to all Oracle Cloud regions worldwide by 2025. Several Oracle Cloud regions in North America, South America and Europe already have 100% renewable energy and all Oracle regions Cloud uses state-of-the-art energy management and cooling technologies to minimize their impact on the environment. As part of its clean cloud initiative, Oracle recycled 99.6% of its retired hardware in fiscal year 2021, while strictly adhering to the company's privacy and data security practices.
Cloud regions offer all multi-cloud cloud services
Oracle Cloud regions support all Oracle services and features, which are available to customers anywhere in the world. This includes Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and Oracle Cloud Applications.
FastConnect's extensive OCI network of more than 70 global and regional partners provides customers with dedicated connectivity to Oracle Cloud regions and OCI services, giving customers the best options anywhere in the world. O FastConnect provides an easy, elastic and inexpensive way to create a private network connection with higher bandwidth, lower latency and more consistent performance compared to public Internet-based connections.
In addition, OCI and Microsoft Azure have a strategic partnership which allows joint clients to run workloads across both clouds. This partnership provides a low-latency interconnect between OCI and Azure clouds in eight regions (Ashburn, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, San Jose, Vinhedo and Frankfurt), federated identity for joint customers to deploy applications on both clouds, and a model of collaborative support. Customers can run entire applications in a multi-cloud configuration while maintaining high-performance connectivity without the need for a new architecture. Additionally, they can either migrate existing applications or develop cloud-native applications that use a combination of OCI and Azure services.
Oracle Global Cloud Regions
Oracle Cloud Regions Currently Available:
- Asia Pacific: Tokyo (Japan), Osaka (Japan), Seoul (South Korea), Chuncheon (South Korea), Mumbai (India), Hyderabad (India), Sydney (Australia) and Melbourne (Australia).
- America: San José (United States), Phoenix (United States), Ashburn (United States), Toronto (Canada), Montreal (Canada), São Paulo (Brazil), Vinhedo (Brazil) and Santiago (Chile).
- Europe: Frankfurt (Germany), London (UK), Newport, Wales (UK), Zurich (Switzerland) and Amsterdam (Netherlands).
- Middle East: Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
- Government: two US general government regions and US national security regions, three US Department of Defense specific government regions, and two in the UK (London and Newport, Wales).
