Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Getting Started

Learn how to purchase and use Oracle Database@Azure.

Oracle Database@Azure is an Oracle database service running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), colocated in Microsoft data centers. This ensures that the Oracle Database@Azure service has the fastest possible access to Azure resources and applications.

Oracle Database@Azure runs on infrastructure managed by Oracle's expert Cloud Infrastructure operations team. The operations team performs software patching, infrastructure updates, and other operations through a connection to OCI. While the service requires that customers have an OCI tenancy, most service activities take place in the Azure environment.

Purchase Oracle Database@Azure

Oracle has two options for purchasing Oracle Database@Azure:

  • Private offer: With this option, you first contact Oracle's sales team to negotiate a contract for Oracle Database@Azure. To use Oracle Exadata Database Service, you must purchase Oracle Database@Azure using a private offer. You can also provision Oracle Autonomous Database after purchasing a private offer.
  • Pay As You Go offer: You can purchase this offer in the Azure Marketplace without contacting Oracle Sales. Oracle offers Autonomous Database for customers purchasing the Pay As You Go offer. Pay as You Go offers the most flexibility, letting you start and stop using the service at any time.

Billing and payment for the service is done through Azure. Payment for Oracle Database@Azure counts toward your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC). Existing Oracle Database software customers can use the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) option or Unlimited License Agreements (ULAs). On your regular Microsoft Azure invoices, you'll see charges for Oracle Database@Azure alongside charges for your other Azure Marketplace services.

Note

  • You can purchase one offer (either Pay As You Go or a private offer) per Azure subscription.
  • If you purchase a private offer from Oracle, the Azure billing account selected for that offer cannot be use for the purchase of Pay As You Go offers in any Azure subscription tied to that billing account.

Oracle Database@Azure Interfaces

You can provision Oracle Database@Azure using the Azure portal and Azure APIs, SDKs and Terraform. Management of Oracle database system infrastructure and VM cluster resources takes place in the Azure portal as well.

For Oracle Container Databases (CDB) and Oracle Pluggable Databases (PDB), some management tasks are completed using the OCI console.

Database and application developers work in the Azure portal or use Azure tools (Azure API, SDK, Terraform) to interact with Oracle Database@Azure databases.