Oracle has officially entered the multi-cloud era. At Oracle CloudWorld 2024 in Las Vegas, the company revealed its latest partnership with AWS, completing its multi-cloud strategy. This follows its earlier collaborations with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
“We’re entering a new phase where services on different clouds work gracefully together. The clouds are becoming open, they’re no longer walled gardens. Customers will have choices and can use multiple clouds,” said Oracle CTO Larry Ellison in his keynote speech at Oracle CloudWorld 2024.
“Oracle has now reached a point where we have connected our cloud with AWS, Google and Microsoft and we have put up Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centres with all of them,” he added.
Oracle recently partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch Oracle Database@AWS. This new offering enables customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Exadata Database Service on AWS infrastructure, simplifying the migration and deployment of enterprise workloads to the cloud.
Ellison further explained that Oracle integrated its Exadata cluster hardware, RDMA network, and the latest Oracle database software directly into an AWS data center. “This setup provides significantly better performance, higher bandwidth, and lower latency,” he said.
Ellison was joined on stage by AWS chief Matt Garman, who said that customers currently running mission-critical workloads on Oracle and looking to move them to AWS—where their applications are—can now do so easily with low latency.
“Oracle Database on AWS is the same price as the Oracle Database on OCI, with the same performance, features, and functions—everything is exactly the same. You can get support from both AWS and Oracle. We believe this dramatically expands the market,” said Ellison.
Last year, AIM was privy to information around the Oracle-AWS partnership. “I think it’s inevitable that we will support other clouds. We’re happy to have that conversation. I would say that it’s not a matter of if, but when it’s going to happen,” said Karan Batta, the SVP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, in an exclusive interaction with AIM at Oracle CloudWorld last year.
Oracle is the NVIDIA of Cloud
Oracle has established itself as a key connector across major cloud providers, giving customers the flexibility to switch between different cloud platforms. This makes Oracle a central player in managing multi-cloud environments.
“The interesting thing about multi-cloud is whichever is your primary cloud, you can reach out to other clouds, infrastructure cloud and very soon the application cloud. You will be able to mix and match the applications and services you want,” said Ellison.
Moreover, Oracle also announced the general availability of Oracle Database@Google Cloud across four regions in the United States and Europe. Customers can now utilise Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service on OCI within Google Cloud data centers.
“If you’re a Google Cloud customer, you can use the Oracle database. If you’re an Oracle Cloud customer, you can use Google Gemini from the Oracle Cloud,” quipped Ellison.
There’s No Stopping Oracle
Oracle recently announced the launch of the world’s first zettascale cloud computing cluster powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. OCI offers up to 131,072 NVIDIA B200 GPUs, which is six times more than other cloud hyperscalers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. For example, while AWS UltraClusters can host up to 20,000 GPUs, OCI offers more than three times that amount, enabling unprecedented levels of computational power.
Oracle also claimed that it is first to offer a zettascale AI supercomputer, delivering 2.4 zettaFLOPs while competitors have only reached the exascale levels.
Apart from the AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure partnerships, Oracle is also building data centers in Japan. “We’re building data centers inside Fujitsu, we’re building data centers inside NTT, and we’ve already built four data centers at NRI (Nomura Research Institute),” said Ellison.
“The most interesting application they run in the Oracle Cloud in Japan is the Tokyo Stock Exchange. As far as I know, it’s the only stock exchange that runs its entire business in the cloud,” he added.
More Customers?
Oracle’s cloud services revenues surged 21% in USD and 22% in constant currency to $5.6 billion, driven by substantial gains in both cloud infrastructure and applications in Q1, 2025.
Currently, Oracle has 162 cloud data centers that are either in operation or under construction worldwide. The largest of these data centers has a capacity of 800 megawatts and will include vast NVIDIA GPU clusters for training large-scale AI models.
Oracle is also planning a data center that will surpass one gigawatt of power, using three modular nuclear reactors, according to Ellison.
Oracle’s competitor-turned-friends, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, combined to account for a substantial 67 percent share of the $76 billion global cloud services market in Q1 2024. With its multi-cloud strategy, Oracle is expected to capture additional market share.
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