Unlocking High-Performance Databases: Deploying Oracle Exadata on Microsoft Azure
Enterprise cloud journeys keep running into the same gravity well: mission-critical Oracle databases that must be modernized without sacrificing performance, availability, or regulatory posture. Oracle Database@Azure —delivered through the jointly engineered Oracle Exadata Database Service on Azure —closes that gap. It places real Exadata infrastructure inside Microsoft Azure data centers, so workloads can stay Oracle-native while applications move freely across the Azure stack. 1. What is Oracle Exadata on Azure? Oracle Exadata Database Service on Azure is a co-engineered offering from Microsoft and Oracle that provisions Exadata infrastructure inside Azure data centers and exposes it through the Azure portal, CLI, ARM templates, and Terraform . In practice, customers get the same Exadata platform that powers Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), but billed, governed, and networked as a first-class Azure resource. The result is a unified operating model: Oracle continues to run on the pl...