Oracle and Google Cloud Announce a Groundbreaking Multicloud Partnership 

Oracle and Google announced a new multi-cloud service that will fill the gap between Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. 

For our esteemed business clients who have invested in cloud and oracle technology stacks, the new multicloud providing offers a practical solution. It enables seamless integration and interoperability, allowing for the deployment of applications across both public cloud environments.   

Thanks to Google Cloud’s cross-cloud interconnect, clients can easily deploy general-purpose workloads without cross-cloud data transfer payments. The interconnect will initially be available for client onboarding in 11 global regions.

Oracle Database@Google Cloud, a new offering with features and price parity with OCI, will be available later this year. This joint offering will benefit businesses worldwide and in a variety of sectors, such as healthcare, financial services, retail, and more.  

Google Cloud and Oracle have both made investments in private networks particularly designed to link enterprise data centers to their cloud platforms. Network switching and connectivity are also offered by partners of Google Cloud Interconnect and Fastconnect on OCI. Therefore, Telecom set, network, and co-location providers deliver high-speed connectivity between the cloud and the data center. 

“Customers want the flexibility to use multiple clouds,” said Larry Ellison, Oracle chairman and CTO. “To meet this growing demand, Google and Oracle are seamlessly connecting Google Cloud services with the very latest Oracle Database technology. By putting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure hardware in Google Cloud data centers, customers can benefit from the best possible database and network performance.” 

“Oracle and Google Cloud have many joint enterprise customers,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet. “This new partnership will help these customers use Oracle databases and applications in concert with Google Cloud’s innovative platform and AI capabilities.” 

Oracle signed a similar deal with Microsoft in September 2023, creating the Oracle Database@Azure offering. The solution was made available in the Microsoft Azure East US region in December 2023 and is expected to be rolled out to Germany Central, Australia East, France Central, Canada Central, Brazil South, Japan East, UK South, Central US, and South-Central US regions throughout 2024. Each deployment will run across two Azure availability zones. 

During the latest earnings call, Ellison revealed that Oracle had deployed 11 out of 23 data centers in Azure locations in Q4. This expansion underscores Oracle’s commitment to providing versatile and robust cloud solutions across multiple platforms, catering to the diverse needs of their enterprise customers.