Cloud heavyweights, Google Cloud and Oracle have decided to sheathe swords and collaborate to enable seamless migration and operation of mission-critical enterprise workloads across both Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
This partnership introduces a comprehensive suite of interoperable solutions, simplifying the process for joint customers to migrate, modernize, and manage Oracle-based applications in the cloud. With a unified engineering, product, and commercial model, these integrated solutions offer customers enhanced choice and flexibility, supported by a collaborative, enterprise-class support model that they have trusted for years.
At the heart of this partnership is the Oracle Database@Google Cloud initiative. Oracle will directly host, operate, and manage its database services natively within Google Cloud data centers, starting with regional footprints in North America and Europe, with plans for rapid global expansion.
For years, enterprise customers have sought a unified framework that allows them to leverage Oracle’s database and enterprise application offerings while integrating seamlessly with Google Cloud’s services and AI solutions, such as Gemini and Vertex AI. Existing multi-vendor, multi-cloud solutions often fell short, lacking the integration and flexibility needed to meet customers’ technical and commercial needs. Additionally, customers faced extra costs like cross-cloud data transfer charges and lacked end-to-end enterprise-grade support for these architectures.
Together, the partners have addressed these challenges, enabling customers to host Oracle database services, including Exadata Cloud Service and Oracle Autonomous Database, directly in Google’s data centers. Customers can interconnect OCI and Google Cloud without incurring cross-cloud data transfer charges. The partnership also extends support for running Oracle Applications on Google Cloud, including Oracle E-Business Suite and more.
According to the statement, Oracle Database@Google Cloud deploys the latest database services in Google Cloud data centers, running on OCI hardware. This allows customers to utilize the most advanced managed services for Oracle Database, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Service. Customers can also operate their Oracle databases on Google Compute Engine.
The partnership marks a significant investment and innovation for joint customers, aimed at delivering cost-effective choices that meet the performance, availability, and security requirements of their most demanding applications and database workloads. Both Google Cloud and Oracle are committed to continuing to innovate around these unified solutions, enhancing value for their customers.
For Africa, the partnership will facilitate the seamless migration and operation of enterprise workloads across both platforms, providing a cost-effective, innovative, and efficient cloud solution for cloud users. Eliminating cross-cloud data transfer charges and localized data centers will foster a more inclusive digital economy, accelerating the growth of African startups and enterprises, and enabling them to scale operations, access global markets, and contribute to the continent’s economic development.
