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15 Reasons You Should Consider Oracle Cloud for Your Oracle Database Workloads

Whether you're a startup or a multinational corporation, the cloud has become a critical part of any business's IT strategy. When it comes to hosting Oracle Database workloads, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a compelling suite of benefits. Here are 15 reasons why you should consider OCI for your Oracle Database needs:

1. Unique Oracle Database Features: OCI provides exclusive access to features such as Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), and Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA). These unique capabilities can dramatically enhance your database efficiency and reliability.

2. Seamless Migration with Zero Downtime: OCI's Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) feature ensures a seamless transition from your on-premises databases to the cloud, with no service interruption.

3. Exadata on Cloud: Leverage the power of Oracle Exadata, a pre-configured, pre-tested, and optimized platform for Oracle Database workloads, in the cloud. It offers high availability, enormous capacity, and exceptional performance.

4. Autonomous Capabilities: Oracle Autonomous Database runs exclusively on OCI, providing a completely automated environment that includes auto-scaling and auto-patching.

5. High Availability Solutions: OCI offers solutions like Oracle RAC and Application Continuity for superior high availability and scalability, enabling business continuity.

6. Early Access to New Database Versions: With OCI, you get early access to new database versions like Oracle Database 23c, fostering innovation and keeping you ahead of the curve.

7. Predictable Network Performance: OCI's physical network infrastructure is flat, fast, and predictable, which can drastically improve database backup and restore times.

8. Enhanced Security: OCI offers advanced security features like Data Safe, Isolated Network Virtualization, Cloud Guard, and Security Zones, ensuring your data is always protected.

9. Guaranteed Resources: With OCI, you get dedicated CPUs, memory, and network bandwidth for your virtual machines, ensuring predictable performance regardless of the activities of other users.

10. Performance Service Level Agreement (SLA): OCI is the only cloud provider to offer a performance SLA for cloud network services.

11. Flexible and Elastic Services: The Autonomous Database service in OCI is available as a simple, elastic service allowing for a more flexible and cost-efficient cloud experience.

12. Exclusive Database Features: OCI offers more database features exclusively, including Refreshable PDB Switchover, Active Data Guard DML Redirection, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and more.

13. Maximized License Utilization: With OCI's "Bring Your Own License" (BYOL) model, you can leverage your existing Oracle licenses in the cloud, resulting in significant cost savings.

14. Universal Credit Model: The Oracle Universal Credit model offers great flexibility, allowing customers to switch, stop, or move services across data centers without license restrictions.

15. Free Migration Services: Oracle's Cloud Lift Services offer free migration services to OCI for eligible customers, further enhancing the value proposition of moving to OCI.


Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is designed with Oracle Database workloads in mind, offering a seamless, secure, and efficient environment for your databases. Consider these 15 reasons when deciding where to host your Oracle Database workloads, and make the most of the cloud's transformative potential.


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