Oracle expands partnership with Azure to strengthen multi-cloud offerings

Oracle today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with Microsoft Azure, delivering a more seamless multi-cloud experience for enterprises. The news, unveiled at Oracle CloudWorld Tour London 2025, builds upon Oracle's strong commitment to multi-cloud adoption, a key message reiterated since Oracle CloudWorld 2024 in Las Vegas.

The highlight of the announcement is the availability of ‘Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure.’ This significant development eliminates the need for customers to provision dedicated database and storage servers, granting them enhanced access to the powerful capabilities of Oracle Exadata Database Service within the Azure environment.

Simplifying multi-cloud deployments

Rajagopal Subramaniyan, SVP of OCI networking at Oracle, emphasized the company's strategic vision for the multi-cloud landscape during his address at the event. “Until now, the industry has lacked a deliberate multi-cloud solution,” he stated. “This has increased customers' complexity when it comes to moving data - the operational complexity and cost is extremely troublesome for customers.”

Subramaniyan highlighted the transformative nature of this expanded partnership. “Today, we are giving you the ability, the flexibility to keep your existing cloud infrastructure investments while leveraging Oracle's Database Cloud Services natively to run your operation workloads,” he added, urging the audience to view this shift as a move from restrictive ‘walled gardens’ to a more flexible ‘network of clouds.’

“Multi-cloud is the connective tissue that unites your existing clouds into one,” Subramaniyan explained. “You can maximize the value of each of your cloud investments, enabling them to come together. A multi-cloud eliminates the reliance on a single cloud provider. This means you have the flexibility now to run your workloads with the hyperscalers of your choice.”

Echoing this sentiment, Jason Rees, SVP of technology and cloud infrastructure for Oracle EMEA, emphasized Oracle's dedication to breaking down barriers for customers during a press briefing. “Oracle has really led the way on this concept of choice, of multi-cloud, and what we recognized was the need for, rather than the industry creating walled gardens, we wanted to better break those down to make it easier,” Rees said.

Oracle's intensified focus on multi-cloud was a central theme at its previous major event in the US, where CTO Larry Ellison declared it “the beginning of the multi-cloud era,” underscoring the company's mission to provide customers with greater choice and flexibility.

Driving AI and enterprise innovation

This renewed emphasis on multi-cloud partnerships is particularly significant in the context of the rapidly growing AI landscape. By fostering closer collaborations with major industry players like Microsoft, Oracle aims to accelerate the adoption of this transformative technology and deliver tangible benefits to enterprise customers.

“You – our customers – are what brings this all together for us,” Oracle CEO Safra Catz had stated previously, reinforcing the company's customer-centric approach. This latest announcement with Azure follows Oracle's recent groundbreaking partnership with AWS, which allows customers to utilize Oracle’s database services within AWS environments and integrate data between the two platforms.

“Many of our long-time rivals are now our partners … Microsoft, then Google, and now AWS,” Catz noted during the event.