Oracle Database@AWS Expands Global Footprint with New Regions in Canada and Australia
February 5, 2026
Oracle Corporation is accelerating its multi-cloud strategy with the expansion of its Oracle Database@AWS service into two new strategic markets. The move underscores the growing enterprise demand for high-performance, low-latency database solutions that can seamlessly operate across different cloud environments, a critical capability for modern, distributed applications and data sovereignty requirements. The company announced that its Oracle Database@AWS offering is now available in Amazon Web Services' CA-Central-1 region in Canada and the AP-Southeast-2 region in Sydney, Australia. This multicloud solution enables customers to run flagship Oracle database workloads, including Oracle Exadata and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), directly on dedicated Oracle hardware deployed inside AWS data centers, ensuring optimized performance. Initially, the service in these new locations is being deployed within a single availability zone per region.
This expansion brings the total number of regions offering Oracle Database@AWS to seven, including existing locations in the United States, Germany, and Japan. The partnership, first revealed in September 2024 and launched in limited preview that December, represents a significant shift in cloud alliances, allowing enterprises to leverage Oracle's database technology without leaving the AWS ecosystem. Oracle has established similar multicloud partnerships with other major hyperscalers. Its offering with Google Cloud, launched in September 2024, is now available in 12 regions, including a recent December 2025 addition in Canada. The longest-standing partnership is with Microsoft; Oracle Database@Azure became available in December 2023 and has since grown to a substantial footprint of 32 regions globally. This aggressive expansion across all three major clouds highlights Oracle's commitment to a partner-led, multi-cloud distribution model for its core database products.
The ongoing geographic expansion of these services is strategically significant for the global cloud infrastructure market. It provides multinational corporations and organizations in regulated industries with more options to deploy mission-critical Oracle databases closer to their end-users and applications while complying with local data residency laws. By embedding its systems within competitor data centers, Oracle is effectively competing with native database services from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, offering an alternative migration path for its vast existing customer base and intensifying competition in the enterprise database-as-a-service segment.
Source: datacenterdynamics
