Oracle teams up with rival AWS to cement its multicloud strategy

American technology company Oracle has announced a new partnership with competitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google, to advance its multicloud strategy.

The new “Oracle Database@AWS” offers access to Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. It also provides a unified experience between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and AWS, simplifying database administration, billing, and customer support, Oracle said at the onset of the company's flagship event 'CloudWorld 24', being held from September 9-12 in Las Vegas, US

"We are seeing huge demand from customers that want to use multiple clouds," said Larry Ellison, Oracle Chairman and Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

"To meet this demand and give customers the choice and flexibility they want, Amazon and Oracle are seamlessly connecting AWS services with the very latest Oracle Database technology, including the Oracle Autonomous Database. With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deployed inside of AWS data centers, we can provide customers with the best possible database and network performance.

“Oracle Database@AWS will launch in preview later in the year and achieve broader availability in 2025,” the company said.

The company also made a similar pact with Google announcing the general availability of Oracle Database@Google Cloud. The two vendors originally announced that the service was in development back on June 11 stating that the service is initially available in four Google Cloud regions, two in the US, and one each in UK (London), and Germany Central (Frankfurt). 
Currently, there are plans in the pipeline to expand this offering to additional regions across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America in the coming months.

“This new service combines all of the benefits of OCI database services with Google Cloud services for a seamless multicloud experience, which was unthinkable in the cloud space just a few years ago,” OCI SVP Karan Batta said in an announcement.

Oracle also partnered with Microsoft last September, when the two companies installed Oracle Exadata and related OCI hardware in Azure data centers.

As of June, Oracle had 11 Azure database sites up and running and a dozen similar sites in the planning stages with Google, Oracle CEO Safra Catz said during the company’s Q4 2024 earnings call. Oracle has since expanded its Azure footprint to 21 regions, according to a Microsoft statement.

Meanwhile, the company announced fiscal 2025 Q1 results. Total quarterly revenues were up 7% year-over-year in USD, and up 8% in constant currency to $13.3 billion. Cloud services revenues were up 21% year-over-year in USD, and up 22% in constant currency to $5.6 billion. Cloud licence and on-premise licence revenues were up 7% in USD and up 8% in constant currency to $870 million.  

In the company’s earnings release, Ellison credited the increasing growth rate in Oracle’s database business to its Microsoft and Google agreements, and described the new AWS partnership as “a milestone in the MultiCloud Era.”

In the last few quarters, Oracle’s India business also saw robust growth, with a focus on cloud services and emerging sectors. In May, Oracle said that the company’s cloud services in the country experienced an overall 100 per cent consumption growth with renewal rates surpassing 74 per cent during the last fiscal year.