At Microsoft, our partnership with Oracle reflects a shared commitment to meeting customers where they are — helping them modernize mission-critical workloads on Azure without sacrificing the performance, control, or compliance posture they've built over years. As part of this continued evolution, Oracle Database@Azure has expanded and is now called Oracle AI Database@Azure — reflecting the broader portfolio of Oracle AI‑enabled database services available natively on Microsoft Azure, and the growing role these databases play as the foundation for analytics and AI.
Today, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Oracle Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure on Oracle AI Database@Azure, giving enterprises a new level of infrastructure exclusivity and operational control on Microsoft Azure.
What's New: Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
Oracle Autonomous AI Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure on Oracle AI Database@Azure gives organizations exclusive cloud resources for their databases — with greater control over maintenance windows, resource allocation, security boundaries, and lifecycle management policies, while Oracle continues to handle database administration.
This is purpose-built for enterprises in highly regulated industries — financial services, healthcare, government, and defense — where resource isolation, audit trail requirements, and strict SLA obligations demand infrastructure that is exclusively theirs. Dedicated architecture reserves an entire Exadata cluster for a single customer, ensuring no shared tenancy, predictable performance, and full operational control without the complexity of managing the database layer.
For organizations that prioritize agility over isolation, Oracle Autonomous AI Database on Serverless architecture remains available on Oracle AI Database@Azure — offering elastic scaling, rapid provisioning, and hands-off management on Oracle-managed infrastructure, with minimal administrative overhead.
Together, both deployment options are available within the same Azure environment, giving every organization a path to run Oracle's most advanced autonomous database technology — at the right level of control for their needs.
The Microsoft IQ Stack: Enabling Frontier Transformation
The race to become an AI-powered enterprise starts with data — and for many of the world's largest organizations, Oracle isn't just a database — it's the system of record for their most critical data: financials, supply chains, ERP, and customer operations. That makes Oracle the foundation — and the gateway — to Frontier Transformation.
Frontier Transformation isn't about replacing what works. It's about owning the autonomous intelligence layer above every system — Oracle included. That means transforming static enterprise data into active, agent-driven intelligence that reasons, acts, and continuously improves — with less manual intervention and faster time to value. The Microsoft IQ Stack is how that becomes real:
- Infrastructure— Azure is the hyperscaler substrate. Oracle AI Database@Azure runs Oracle's Exadata hardware natively inside Azure datacenters, bringing Oracle's systems of record into direct, low-latency proximity with Microsoft’s cloud services.
- Data — Oracle remains the authoritative system of record. Microsoft Fabric and OneLake activates that data to be governed, unified, and AI-ready.
- Models (IQ Core) — Work IQ, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ sit above the data layer, grounding Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Foundry in real business context that lives inside Oracle.
- Applications — Oracle apps remain systems of record. Microsoft Copilot and agents become the system of intelligence — embedded in the workflows where work happens.
Oracle AI Database@Azure — and today's dedicated infrastructure expansion — directly strengthens the Data layer of the IQ Stack. Enterprises can now bring their Oracle data from anywhere — on-premises, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, Google Cloud, or other environments — and land it on Azure, connecting decades of mission-critical data to the full power of Microsoft AI.
Once on Azure, that data becomes active intelligence. It flows into Microsoft Fabric for governed analytics and unified data insights. It feeds Microsoft Foundry to power autonomous agents that don't just surface information — they reason over it, take action, and reduce operational overhead. And through Work IQ — via Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot in Teams, and Copilot Studio — it surfaces in the tools your people already use: meeting prep grounded in live financials, decisions informed by real ERP data, and custom agents built directly on your Oracle systems of record.
The result is faster innovation, fewer operational bottlenecks, and a new generation of agent-driven processes built on the data your organization has trusted for decades.
This is where the Microsoft IQ Stack becomes the strategic imperative for your Oracle workloads.
Customer Spotlight: Activision Blizzard Modernizes Oracle E‑Business Suite and Activates AI on Azure
Global gaming leader Activision Blizzard is using Oracle Database@Azure to modernize its Oracle E‑Business Suite (EBS) environment while laying the foundation for AI‑driven insights across the Microsoft cloud ecosystem.
By running Oracle Exadata natively inside Azure datacenters, Activision Blizzard was able to move its EBS‑backed Oracle databases to the cloud without compromise—preserving the performance, reliability, and governance required for core financial and operational systems, while gaining direct proximity to Microsoft’s data and AI services.
With Oracle EBS data available natively on Azure, Activision Blizzard gained real‑time access to its systems of record from Azure services and seamless integration across Oracle and non‑Oracle data sources. This enables faster insight delivery to business stakeholders and creates new opportunities to analyze and act on operational and financial data without costly data movement.
Crucially, Oracle Database@Azure allows Activision Blizzard to extend the value of its EBS data using Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Copilot Studio—transforming traditional ERP data into AI‑ready intelligence. This provides a practical foundation for agent‑driven workflows, where AI can reason over trusted EBS data to support decision‑making, streamline processes, and accelerate innovation while maintaining strong governance and security controls.
This customer story demonstrates how Oracle Database@Azure helps organizations modernize EBS‑based systems of record and connect them directly to the Microsoft IQ Stack—bridging enterprise ERP data with analytics, AI, and Copilot experiences to prepare for an AI‑first future.
Learn more: https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/26227-activision-blizzard-oracle-database-at-azure
Generally Available Across All 33 Azure Regions
Oracle AI Database@Azure is now generally available in all 33 Azure regions — making it most broadly available service amongst all hyperscalers. Each supported region includes multiple Availability Zones (AZs), enabling customers to architect highly available, resilient deployments that maximize uptime and protect against zone-level failures.
These 33 regions span the globe across every major geography:
Americas East US · East US 2 · West US · West US 2 · West US 3 · South Central US · Canada Central · Brazil South
Europe UK South · North Europe · West Europe · France Central · Germany West Central · Switzerland North · Sweden Central · Norway East · Poland Central · Italy North
Middle East & Africa UAE North · Qatar Central · Israel Central · South Africa North
Asia Pacific East Asia · Southeast Asia · Japan East · Japan West · Australia East · Australia Southeast · Korea Central · Central India · South India · West India
This global footprint ensures that enterprises — regardless of where their data must reside — can deploy Oracle AI Database@Azure with the data residency, latency, and compliance characteristics they require.
A Comprehensive Oracle Database Portfolio on Azure
Oracle AI Database@Azure is designed to give customers the same broad set of Oracle AI Database capabilities they rely on today — fully available on Azure. The portfolio includes:
- Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure — for mission-critical OLTP workloads
- Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure — for cost-efficient, burstable enterprise workloads
- Oracle Autonomous AI Database (serverless and dedicated)
- Oracle Base Database Service — for flexible, customer-managed Oracle DB deployments
- Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse — for unified analytics and data warehousing
- Oracle GoldenGate — for real-time data replication and integration
- Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service — for enterprise-grade backup and recovery
Customers can migrate to Azure without rearchitecting their existing solutions. Oracle Zero Downtime Migration automates the migration process to minimize disruption, and customers can implement Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Silver and Gold reference architectures within Azure for high availability and disaster recovery — all while keeping existing Oracle licenses (BYOL) or choosing a license-included model.
Next Steps
Whether you're migrating Oracle workloads to Azure, building AI-powered applications on top of enterprise data, or architecting for the highest levels of compliance and availability, Oracle AI Database@Azure gives you the foundation to move fast without compromise.
Here's how to get started:
- Learn more at aka.ms/oracle
- Attend the Oracle + Azure Technical Webinar Series from our technical experts to go deeper on Oracle AI Database@Azure
- Join the Oracle AI Database@Azure community on LinkedIn to connect with peers and get the latest updates
- Talk to your Microsoft or Oracle account team to discuss architecture options, migration planning, licensing, and how to get started
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