Adopt a multi-cloud strategy to hand-pick services and features that best meet your IT requirements, while gaining—with better pricing, performance, and operability.
Curating services from multiple cloud providers helps you optimize resources, gain flexibility, and manage IT costs. However, it also introduces new challenges and complexities. For a seamless multi-cloud experience, consider Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to help distribute and run your Oracle workloads across various cloud platforms, getting the best of all clouds.
Why Multi-Cloud is the Future
The IT landscape is continuing to grow in complexity, driven by rapid advancements in computing technology, changing business needs, and ever-evolving cybersecurity threats. More organizations are turning to a multi-cloud approach for several reasons, including flexibility, business requirements, risk management, and performance optimization, as well as cost containment.
Multi-cloud strategies offer a next-generation solution to create a secure, high-performance IT environment that will future-proof your infrastructure.
This blog focuses on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a premier multi-cloud enabler—going beyond the limitations of a single cloud provider.
The Case for a Multi-Cloud Strategy
By mixing and matching the strengths of various cloud providers, you can craft a custom approach that perfectly fits your situation.
For instance, a company might leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the vast array of developer tools and OCI for robust reporting and fast data querying. Walmart’s strategy is a perfect example, where their IT services utilize Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and on-premises infrastructure, which reduces the overall cost and provides highly available application frameworks.
As with any new technology, multi-cloud deserves careful consideration before making your move. The following points indicate an urgency to take that leap forward.
Multi-cloud is essential to the modern enterprise
To thrive in today’s competitive business world, companies need to increase their innovation potential without constraints, build resilience against outages or vendor lock-ins, address demanding AI-powered workloads, and keep up with stricter compliance and regulatory requirements.
Multi-cloud mitigates traditional single-cloud challenges
A single provider might not always offer the necessary resources to scale efficiently during peak demand times or the necessary compliance features for various geographical locations. It also restricts the ability to cross-compare the cost of services. If a security issue arises within a single provider’s architecture, a company’s entire cloud environment could be compromised.
Multi-cloud is a growing trend
The adoption of a multi-cloud strategy is on the rise as more businesses make this strategic decision to gain a competitive edge. A Multi-Cloud Market Report predicts that between 2025 and 2030, the multi-cloud market is projected to register a robust compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.78%.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Enabling Multi-Cloud Excellence
OCI is backed by Oracle’s vast experience and commitment to delivering innovative technology solutions at the enterprise level. Not only does it accelerate the cloud migration process, but it also has the power and flexibility to deploy OCI Oracle database services in any cloud via these tools designed to integrate the multi-cloud experience:
- Oracle Interconnect – for Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- OCI FastConnect
- Google Cloud Interconnect
- Azure Express Route
It’s now possible to seamlessly run Oracle workloads across your Google or Azure Cloud and OCI environments while accessing the best-in-class services of each cloud provider, using a dedicated, low-latency private connection.
Multi-Cloud Potential: OCI in Action
There are countless ways in which businesses have incorporated OCI into their unique multi-cloud setup. One company may integrate OCI with Azure, maximizing the capabilities of both platforms to support their diverse business needs with flexibility and robust performance; another company may use OCI to connect multiple cloud environments, enhancing interoperability and efficiency in hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios.
Over the last several years, Oracle’s OCI has evolved in a collaborative, integrated effort alongside Microsoft, Google, and Amazon as they shaped the multi-cloud capabilities we enjoy today.
June 2019 – Oracle and Microsoft introduced the pioneering “Interconnect” for migrating and running mission-critical enterprise workloads across both Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. This provides a seamless connection to Azure services, like Analytics and AI, and to Oracle Cloud services, like Autonomous Database. A highly optimized, best-of-both-cloud experience allows one part of a workload to be processed within Azure and another part of the same workload within Oracle Cloud.
September 2023 – Oracle Database@Azure was created to deliver all the performance, scale, and workload availability advantages of Oracle Database on OCI with the security, flexibility, and best-in-class services of Microsoft Azure—including AI services like Azure OpenAI. This allows customers to choose where to run their workloads. It also streamlines cloud management across Oracle Database and Azure services and simplifies the purchasing process. Users can conveniently download Oracle Database@Azure through Azure Marketplace, leveraging your existing Azure agreements. Users can also use their existing Oracle Database license benefits, including Bring Your Own License and the Oracle Support Rewards program.
June 2024 – Oracle repeated the Azure model in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) after having many customers successfully use Interconnect and Database@Azure. The Oracle Interconnects for Google Cloud and Database@GCP were introduced simultaneously.
September 2024 – Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Oracle joined forces to offer Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. There is no direct interconnection between OCI and AWS; however, connectivity can be made via a FastConnect partner, who connects to AWS Direct Connect with just two-to-four milliseconds of round-trip latency.
February 2025 – The following multi-cloud services are currently supported by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI):
| Service | Azure | GCP | AWS |
| Interconnect | √ | √ | X |
| Database@XX – Exadata Cloud Services | √ | √ | √ |
| Database@XX – Autonomous Database Dedicated | √ | √ | √ |
| Database@XX – Autonomous Database Serverless | √ | √ | X |
Building Your Multi-Cloud Strategy with OCI
The Interconnect (or connectivity through a FastConnect provider) and Database@XX are tremendous multi-cloud opportunities for enterprises. Oracle’s multi-cloud strategy offers a one-stop shop for all the cloud services and applications you need to run your entire business.
Are you ready to boost performance, improve resilience, and lower cloud costs while avoiding vendor lock-in? If so, Data Intensity can help build a multi-cloud strategy with OCI tailored to suit your needs. Here’s our step-by-step process:
- First, we assess your current infrastructure through our proprietary Cloud Platform Assessment.
- Next, we develop cloud goals that align with your business objectives by choosing the right services that suit your business requirements and cost efficiency.
- Lastly, we utilize OCI tools and third-party tools to execute your customized strategy.
Contact our team today to get started.
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