Oracle has expanded its Oracle Database@Azure offering.

The solution sees Oracle locating its Exadata database-optimized servers and Real Application Clusters in Microsoft Azure data centers.

The company has now made its Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure available in these @Azure regions, and has added a new location to the offering at Microsoft Azure's East US 2 region.

This brings the total regions to 14, with 18 more planned to be deployed this year. Of those, around four or five will be in Europe.

"We designed Exascale Infrastructure to deliver Exadata's powerful capabilities in a multi-tenant, hyper-elastic cloud form that can be consumed by organizations of any size for all critical workloads," said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure is a key advancement in our multicloud strategy and collaboration with Microsoft that will give joint customers new opportunities for success in the cloud."

"Microsoft and Oracle's collaboration on Oracle Database@Azure continues to see strong global customer demand," said Brett Tanzer, vice president, Azure product management, Microsoft. "The addition of Oracle Exadata Exascale and Base Database Managed Services to Oracle Database@Azure gives customers of all sizes greater choice in performance, scale, and flexibility to accelerate innovation with Microsoft's AI, analytics, security, apps, and other services."

Plans for the Oracle Database@Azure offering were first shared in September 2023, with the location launching in the Azure East US region in Virginia in December 2023.

During the Oracle CloudWorld London event, Brett Tanzer, and Oracle's VP of Oracle cloud sales, UK, Nick Wallace, talked to DCD about the offering.

"Our intention is to meet customers where they are and ensure we are able to provide our services. Often, that is where they have a huge use already of Oracle technology, but it means it can be done in the cloud they've already chosen," Wallace explained.

With the offering seeing Oracle hardware deployed in Azure data centers, Microsoft's Tanzer explained that the scale is "not racks but rows, multiple rows of data center infrastructure that integrate into our powerplant, but connect back to Oracle's network."

During Microsoft's recent earnings call, CFO Amy Wood noted that the company was operating from a "pretty capacity-constrained place" currently regarding its Azure earnings coming in "at the bottom end of the guidance range."

When asked if this was a consideration when giving valuable real estate to Oracle in Azure data centers, Tanzer said: "We see this as a very important offering. We think a lot of our customers are going to want to use Oracle and our AI infrastructure together, so it isn't an either-or conversation."