Oracle and AWS deepen multi-cloud alliance with global 22-region expansion of AI database service

Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed an expanded, long-term strategic collaboration agreement, bringing Oracle AI Database@AWS to 22 global AWS regions across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The geographic rollout, doubling down on their initial partnership launch, is paired with the general availability of new serverless and usage-based database capabilities designed to accelerate enterprise AI adoption and cloud migrations.

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Following the announcement, Oracle shares rose 3% as markets responded to the software giant's expanding multi-cloud footprint.

New Exascale Infrastructure and Low-Latency Serverless Options

Alongside the regional expansion, Oracle introduced two major infrastructure additions natively hosted within AWS data centers:

• Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure: Brings high-performance Exadata architecture to workloads of any size using a pay-per-use model. Customers can specify exact compute and storage allocations on pooled storage servers without provisioning dedicated hardware.

• Autonomous AI Database Serverless: Delivers application-to-database latency as low as 165 microseconds, enabling real-time transactional processing and low-latency AI inference loops directly against core enterprise datasets.

Native Integration with AWS AI and Analytics

The service addresses a long-standing operational challenge for enterprises running mission-critical Oracle databases alongside AWS cloud environments. By co-locating Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) hardware inside AWS data centers, customers avoid complex cross-cloud networking pipelines and latency bottlenecks. The expanded offering provides direct "zero-ETL" integration with Amazon Redshift, automated backups to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and direct connectivity to generative AI development platforms like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker.

Scaling Enterprise Adoption and Multi-Cloud Strategy

Enterprise customers already leveraging the platform for production workloads include South Korean retail giant CJ Olive Young, international music rights manager Kobalt Music Group, and the Metropolitan Transport Authority of Barcelona.

The AWS partnership represents a key pillar in Oracle's broader multi-cloud strategy. While Oracle Database@Azure remains the company's largest multi-cloud deployment by region count (spanning 33 regions), and Oracle Database@Google Cloud expands to 20 regions, the AWS acceleration signals strong enterprise demand for unified data management across competing public cloud providers.