Oracle Cloud introduces Five more Cloud Regions

In a catch-up game with AWS and Azure, Oracle Cloud has launched five more local but new regions worldwide.

Five new regions include local regions in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), Australia (Melbourne), Japan (Osaka), Canada (Montreal), and The Netherlands (Amsterdam). For Oracle Cloud, this launch brings cloud region count to a total of 21 regions including 10 regions launched in the last six months.

Executive Opinion

In blogpost Director of Product Management, Oracle Cloud, Andrew Reichman, said, "Oracle plans to put a minimum of two regions in almost every country where we operate, and these new regions mark a big step toward this goal. The United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, India, and Brazil will also have two regions live by the end of 2020."

Five new Cloud Regions

Oracle is trying to address the customer feedback to run their workloads in fully independent regions and also requested multiple regions in the same country. Primarily these asks are driven by data residency/locality and disaster recovery requirements, note the announcement.

Newly introduced regions in Osaka (Japan), Melbourne (Australia), Montreal (Canada), and Amsterdam (Netherlands) are the second sites within the same country. Oracle plans to introduce another region in Saudi Arabia late this year.

Few more new cloud regions are coming up in the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, India, and Brazil later in the year 2020. The plan is to have a minimum of two cloud regions in the country where Oracle operates, notes the announcement.