Distributed Cloud
Run any workload—from enterprise apps to AI—in any location. Oracle is the only hyperscaler capable of delivering more than 100 cloud services across any environment, anywhere.
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2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services
Oracle is the only hyperscaler capable of delivering more than 150 AI and cloud services across public, dedicated, and hybrid cloud environments, anywhere in the world. Read the report to see why Oracle is named a Leader.
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2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
Oracle’s distributed cloud offerings deliver the public cloud to customer data centers and edge locations, with a range of deployment models available. Read the report to see why Oracle is named a Leader.
2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services
A distributed cloud—wherever you need it
Deploy a full cloud stack with more than 100 services, including AI, anywhere
More than 100 cloud services available anywhere—from containers to AI—to help you migrate, modernize, build, scale, and run your entire IT portfolio.
An integrated AI stack across PaaS, SaaS, and industry-leading IaaS, with AI services and GenAI built in for AI developers, builders, and business users alike.
A network of globally distributed regions separated into individual cloud realms that cater to local environments and offer consistent security and performance.
A broad set of tools and native foundational services with nondisruptive and automated VMware estate migration, application modernization, and data warehousing and management—including the AI-first and vector search–enabled Oracle Database 23ai.
A combination of critical cloud services from Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and AWS to help you optimize functionality, performance, and costs—plus the ability to pair the best key services from different clouds to modernize your databases and applications.
Meet the most stringent cloud regulatory and sovereignty requirements
A customizable controls and resources setup to help you address your sovereignty needs and meet specific compliance and security requirements.
Secure and physically isolated cloud region deployments that are disconnected from the internet and designed to support governments and defense missions at secret and top secret classified levels.
Uniform service architectural constructs for all deployment models to meet standardized compliance and security benchmarks and enable uncompromised performance and a consistent experience.
More than 80 compliance certifications, spanning FedRAMP, GDPR, NIST, and the EU Cloud Code of Conduct, helping ensure alignment with even the strictest regulatory requirements.
Sovereign AI technologies to give you control over data location, encryption, access, and operations and support your digital sovereignty strategy and approach.
Benefit from Oracle’s globally consistent low pricing, experience, and support in every deployment
A standard set of services and low pricing across deployments and all locations, with 50% cost savings in flexible compute and containers, 70% savings in auto-tunable storage, and 80% savings in networking compared with other hyperscale cloud providers.
An integrated hardware, software, and operational model for simpler purchasing and superior operations, updates, scaling, and support.
Enterprise support included across deployments for no-surprise pricing, and end-to-end SLAs covering performance, availability, and manageability.
Consistent cross-platform services for seamless workload transitions without the need to rewrite or re-architect, optimizing application performance and time to market.
Full-scale, differentiated dedicated cloud deployment models with the same Oracle pricing and support advantages, including the ability to run your own cloud as a service provider to capture new markets and create new revenue streams.
AI-ready cloud in action
Customer successes with distributed cloud
Consistent services, security, and performance, wherever you deploy
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) makes it easy to use the cloud the way you need to. By design, OCI’s distributed cloud offerings are all built on the same foundation. This means you get the same cloud services, performance, pricing, and SLAs regardless of how and where you need to deploy.
Behind the scenes: Touchless cloud region build
Explore the intricate process of how OCI builds automated cloud regions, and delve into the foundational elements and innovative software solutions that make a touchless cloud region deployment possible.
Public cloud
OCI provides more than 100 secure commercial cloud services across the globe to meet your key public cloud needs.
- Oracle Cloud regions deliver a secure, high performance platform for all workloads.
- Oracle operates regions in 26 countries, with certified global, regional, and industry compliance via more than 80 compliance programs.
- Each Oracle Cloud region offers a consistent set of more than 100 cloud services and is designed to run any application, faster and more securely, for less.
“When you look at our growth this year and going into next year, 100% of our growth in compute is going to come on Oracle Cloud, And that allows you to scale the right way, make sure that your unit economics stay predictable, stay exactly as you want as you grow. As a result, Oracle has been a big, big part of our transformation, to grow but to grow profitably as well.”
Multicloud
OCI lets you choose the right cloud for the right workload, with an industry-leading array of multicloud options.
- Interconnects with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud offer high performance and low latency.
- Provision and operate databases with a unified experience across clouds.
- Low network transfer pricing makes it easier to move data.
“Our customer base of Fortune 100 companies and more than 600 government and transportation agencies depend on us to help streamline their business processes and end user interactions, which makes transaction speed a top priority. With Oracle Database@Azure, we’ve been able to leverage cross-cloud low latency to improve application performance and streamline the management of our IT infrastructure. This helps us deliver solutions and services that improve clients’ operations, increase efficiencies, reduce costs, and enhance the customer experience.”
Dedicated cloud
OCI builds a cloud for you.
- Access the full set of OCI cloud services in your own cloud in a range of deployment models, including air-gapped deployments to support highly classified workloads.
- Bring a full cloud region into your data center or partner with Oracle to become a cloud provider for your region.
- Government regions in the US, UK, and Australia are geographically separate from the public cloud and built to support regulatory compliance.
- All dedicated cloud regions are managed, upgraded, and supported the same way as all other Oracle Cloud regions.
“With Oracle Alloy, we provide new, customized cloud services while also helping our customers take advantage of the latest OCI services and technologies to move their existing systems to the cloud and modernize them.”
Hybrid cloud
OCI builds a cloud for you.
- Control the location of and access to your data and applications at the edge to minimize latency for time-sensitive workloads.
- Bring the automation and flexible consumption pricing of Oracle databases and compute infrastructure into your data center or to the edge.
- Move key workloads outside your data center through ruggedized devices, with cloud services deployed at the edge of networks and in disconnected locations.
- Benefit from the simplicity and economics of the cloud in your data center.
“Oracle fits into [our] strategy and complements our existing journey. There will be applications staying in the on-premises world, and we need to invest in simplifying them. It fully supports our cloud strategy, supports consuming technology as a service, and comes with significant financial and sustainability benefits.”
Services available in all cloud regions
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has all the services you need to migrate, build, and run all your IT, from existing enterprise workloads to new cloud native applications and data platforms. Oracle delivers services from all its cloud regions, public, government, sovereign, and dedicated regions across the globe as part of its distributed cloud.
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Cloud services where you need them
Each Oracle Cloud region supports our 100-plus core cloud services. OCI services are consistent across all its regions for commercial, sovereign, government, and OCI Dedicated Region customers. Helping you optimize enterprise applications without re-architecting, build cloud native and open applications, and unlock the value of data.
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Simple and competitive pricing
OCI offers uniform pricing across all public cloud regions including OCI Dedicated Region. Oracle’s approach simplifies cost management and eliminates billing surprises. Customers get committed use discounts and software license portability and are rewarded for their OCI consumption.
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More familiar with AWS or Azure?
OCI has the services you need to build, manage, and run your IT in the cloud. If you’re more familiar with other cloud providers, visit our handy comparison tool to learn about comparable services.
Complete cloud infrastructure and platform services for every workload
OCI offers a common set of 100+ services in each cloud region. Get all the services you need—from containers and VMware to AI—to migrate, modernize, build, and scale your IT. Automate all your workloads, including both existing and new applications and data platforms.
Developer Services
Build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications using developer-friendly tools and services.
Integration Services
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration services connect any application and data source to automate end-to-end processes and centralize management. The broad array of integrations, with prebuilt adapters and low-code customization, simplify migration to the cloud while streamlining hybrid and multicloud operations.
Application integration
Data integration
Process automation
API full lifecycle management
Messaging
Analytics and BI
Gain comprehensive business intelligence with augmented analytics to help your organization grow through unique insights.
AI and Machine Learning
Easily add intelligence to your applications and workloads with prebuilt perception and decision models and out-of-the-box chatbots, or build and train your own models with our data science services.
ML Services
Media Services
Big Data and Data Lake
Gain new insights across all of your data with our comprehensive platform of managed Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and Kafka-compatible services, combined with best-in-class data warehouse and data management services.
Compute
Secure and elastic compute capacity in the cloud that ranges from flexible virtual machines (Flex VMs) and high-performance bare metal servers to HPC and GPUs.
Storage
Address key use cases with on-demand local, object, file, block, and archive storage.
Containers and Functions
Deploy microservices applications on high-performance, managed, open source Docker, Kubernetes, and Fn Functions services.
Networking
Connect securely to a customizable, isolated virtual cloud network (VCN) as the heart of your cloud deployment. Move data at 25% of the cost of other cloud providers.
Oracle Databases
Run cost-optimized, high-performance, and autonomous versions of Oracle Database, the world's leading converged, multimodel database management system in the cloud.
- Autonomous Database
- Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer
- Data Integrator
- Data Safe
- Database Management
- Database Migration
- Oracle Database@Azure
- Oracle Database@Google Cloud
- Database Service for Azure
- Enterprise Database Service
- Exadata Cloud@Customer
- Exadata Database Service
- Globally Distributed Autonomous Database
- GoldenGate
- NoSQL
- Ops Insights
- Standard Database Service
- Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service
Open Source Databases
HeatWave MySQL is a fully managed database service, powered by the integrated HeatWave in-memory query accelerator. It’s the only cloud database service that combines transactions, analytics, and machine learning services in one MySQL Database, delivering real-time, secure analytics without the complexity, latency, and cost of ETL duplication.
Security, Observability and Management, Compliance, and Cost Management and Governance
Protect your most valuable data in the cloud with Oracle’s security-first approach and comprehensive compliance programs. Oracle provides visibility and machine-learning–driven insights to ease management across all layers of the stack deployed on any technology, anywhere.
Cloud Infrastructure Security
Cloud Database Security
Cloud Application Security
Observability and Management
Cost Management and Governance
Global Cloud Data Center Infrastructure
Global, secure, high-performance environments to move, build, and run all your workloads. Hybrid and edge offerings provide specialized deployment, disconnected and intermittently connected operation, low latency and high performance, as well as data locality and security.
Service availability
OCI’s strategy is to offer all of its 100-plus cloud services in every public cloud region and dedicated cloud region. Certain specialized or emerging services are available only in select regions.
Specialized services
| Service | Availability | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North America | Latin and South America | Europe | Middle East and Africa | Asia Pacific | |
| Oracle Database@Azure | Ashburn, Toronto | Campinas | Frankfurt, London, Milan, Paris | Melbourne | |
| Oracle Database@Google Cloud | Ashburn, Salt Lake City | Frankfurt, London | |||
| Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud | Ashburn, Montreal | Sao Paulo | Frankfurt, London, Madrid | Sydney, Melbourne, Mumbai, Tokyo, Singapore | |
| Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure | Ashburn, Phoenix, San Jose, Toronto | Vinhedo | Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London | Johannesburg | Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo |
| Confidential Computing | Ashburn, Phoenix, Toronto | Frankfurt, London, UK Gov Newport, Zurich | Sydney | ||
| Data Transfer Service | Ashburn, Phoenix | Frankfurt, London | Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo | ||
| Roving Edge Infrastructure | Ashburn, US Gov Ashburn | Frankfurt | |||
| Database Service for Microsoft Azure | Ashburn, Phoenix, San Jose, Toronto | Vinhedo | Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London | Johannesburg | Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo |
Emerging services
| Service | Availability | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North America | Latin and South America | Europe | Middle East and Africa | Asia Pacific | |
| Blockchain Platform | Ashburn, Chicago, Montreal, Phoenix, San Jose, Toronto | Santiago, Sao Paolo | Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Zurich | Dubai, Jeddah | Hyderabad, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo |
Service availability is subject to change. SKUs may not be available in all cloud regions.
Service availability in government regions
Oracle offers separate cloud regions for use by the US, UK, and Australian governments and their service providers. These government clouds provide world-class security and compliance with consistent high performance and both service and rate parity with Oracle’s commercial cloud regions.
- Oracle Government Cloud
- Oracle Compliance Program DISA and FedRAMP Authorizations
- Oracle US Government Cloud
- Oracle UK Government and Defence Cloud
- Oracle Australian Government and Defence Cloud
All OCI services will be available in Oracle government regions after appropriate certification, except for certain services that are specialized or incompatible with certification criteria. Services in US government regions marked with an asterisk have been submitted to JAB or DISA.
| Cloud Services | US Gov East (Ashburn) | US Gov West (Phoenix) | US DoD East | US DoD North | US DoD West | UK Gov South (London) | UK Gov West (Newport) | Australian Gov (Canberra) | Analytics and BI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analytics Platform | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Big Data and Data Lake |
| Big Data Service | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Data Catalog | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Data Flow | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Compute |
| GPU-Accelerated Compute | yes |
no |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
no |
| HPC Compute | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
yes |
no |
| Compute | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Containers and Functions |
| Kubernetes Engine (OKE) | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Container Registry | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Container Instances | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
| Functions | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Cost Management and Governance |
| Audit | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Compliance Documents | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| License Manager | yes |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| Tagging | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Database Services |
| Autonomous Data Warehouse | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Autonomous Transaction Processing | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Autonomous JSON Database | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Exadata Database | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Base Database | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Exadata Cloud@Customer | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| MySQL HeatWave | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| NoSQL | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
yes |
| Search Service with OpenSearch | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
Database Tools |
| Database Management | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Database Migration | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
| Autonomous Recovery Service | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| Management Agent | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Developer Services |
| Registry | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Resource Manager | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| DevOps | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| API Gateway | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Events | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| APEX | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Content Management | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Blockchain Platform | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| Artifact Registry | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Cloud Shell | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Email Delivery | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Visual Builder Studio | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Health Checks | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| Visual Builder | yes |
yes |
no
* |
no
* |
no
* |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Java Management | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Integration |
| Integration | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Data Integration | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| GoldenGate | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Process Automation | yes |
yes |
no
* |
no
* |
no
* |
no |
no |
no |
| Streaming | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Machine Learning and AI |
| Anomaly Detection | yes |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Data Science | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Digital Assistant | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Language | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Media Flow | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| Media Streams | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| Data Labeling | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Forecasting | yes |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| Speech | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
yes |
| Vision | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
Multicloud |
| Database Service for Microsoft Azure | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| Interconnect for Azure | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
Networking |
| Virtual Cloud Network | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| FastConnect | yes |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| DNS Management | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Load Balancing | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Network Path Analyzer | yes |
yes |
no
* |
no
* |
no
* |
no |
no |
no |
| Traffic Management | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
| Web application Acceleration | yes |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
Observability and Management |
| Logging | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Logging Analytics | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Notifications | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Application Performance Monitoring | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Ops Insights | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Monitoring | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Stack Monitoring | yes |
yes |
no
* |
no
* |
no
* |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Security |
| Identity and Access Management | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Security Zones | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Cloud Guard | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Managed Access | yes |
yes |
no
* |
no
* |
no
* |
no |
no |
no |
| Vulnerability Scanning | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Vault | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Bastion | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Network Firewall | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
yes |
| Web Application Firewall | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Access Governance | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
| Data Safe | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Identity Cloud Service | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Storage |
| Block Volume | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| File Storage | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Object Storage | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Archive Storage | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Data Transfer Service | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
| Storage Gateway | no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
yes |
yes |
no |
VMware |
| VMware Solution | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
* Services marked with the asterisk have already been already submitted to JAB or DISA.
Service availability in Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud regions
Due to the restrictions and safeguards for sovereignty applied to Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud, the following services are not applicable:
- Database@Azure
- Database@Google Cloud
- Interconnect for Microsoft Azure
- Interconnect for Google Cloud
- Health Checks
- Public DNS
The following emerging services are in a rollout phase:*
- AI Vision
- GPU Instances
- Media Flow
- Media Streams
- Document Understanding
- Access Governance
- Cache
- Process Automation
- Secure Desktops
- Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service (already available in Frankfurt)
The following services are not currently available:*
* For further information, contact us.
Get started with distributed cloud
Learn more about distributed cloud
Explore how OCI’s distributed cloud offerings can deliver services where you need them to meet the toughest regulatory, data residency, compliance, and low-latency performance requirements.
Explore distributed cloud
- AI, Speed, Flexibility, and Security Your Way with Oracle Cloud: Clay Magouyrk’s keynote at Cloudworld 2024 (52:12)
- Multicloud in the Mainstream—access the results of the survey from S&P Global
- What is Cloud@Customer? (2:00)
- Public cloud regions near you
- Oracle’s approach to cloud sovereignty
Talk to sales
Contact us to learn more about OCI’s distributed cloud, including multicloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, and dedicated cloud solutions. Let one of our experts help.
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They can answer questions such as:
- How can I use OCI from other clouds to decrease costs and increase scalability?
- Can I modernize and consolidate my existing Oracle estate if I’m not yet in the cloud?
- What are my options for data residency and sovereignty in the cloud?
- How can I have more control over the location and operations of my data and applications?