As enterprises continue accelerating their cloud transformation journeys, multicloud strategies are becoming a critical part of modern IT architecture and to address this growing demand like discussed in my previous article , Oracle and Google expanded their strategic partnership with a series of multicloud offerings designed to simplify interoperability between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud.
This partnership between Oracle and Google was designed to help enterprises modernize applications, simplify database deployments, and support distributed cloud-native architectures across both platforms.
And that introduce several key multicloud capabilities, including:
- Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud
- Oracle Database@Google Cloud
Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud, introduced in 2024, provides a low-latency, high-throughput private connection between paired OCI and Google Cloud regions. This allows organizations to build applications that seamlessly integrate services and data across both cloud environments.
Building on this foundation, Oracle Database@Google Cloud was launched later in 2024 to bring Oracle database services directly into Google Cloud datacenters.
Oracle Database@Google Cloud is a service that allows to organizations to run OCI-native Oracle Database services directly inside Google Cloud datacenters while benefiting from Google Cloud-native management experiences, networking, automation, and operational simplicity.
Oracle Database@Google Cloud enables customers to deploy OCI-native Oracle Database services directly within Google Cloud infrastructure while maintaining a simplified Google Cloud operational experience.
Organizations can choose between:
- Oracle Autonomous Database (fully managed)
- Oracle Exadata Database Service (co-managed)
The Oracle database infrastructure itself runs on OCI technology hosted inside Google Cloud datacenters and is managed by Oracle’s expert OCI operations teams.
Also Oracle Database@Google Cloud simplifies the commercial experience so organizations can purchase the service directly through Google Cloud Marketplace using:
- Public offers
- Private offers
So customers can also leverage:
- Existing Google Cloud commitments
- Oracle Bring Your Own License (BYOL) programs
- Oracle Support Rewards
And that provides greater financial flexibility .
By co-locating OCI-native database services directly inside Google Cloud datacenters while maintaining Oracle-managed infrastructure operations, organizations benefit from:
- Ultra-low latency between applications and databases
- Simplified deployment and management
- OCI-grade database performance and scalability
- Native Google Cloud operational experiences
- Reduced networking complexity
- Integrated security and backup capabilities
Also enables enterprises to modernize Oracle workloads while fully leveraging Google Cloud innovation services and cloud-native development platforms.
This architecture like shared below eliminates much of the complexity traditionally associated with cross-cloud networking and database integration.
At the core of this architecture is the concept of the OCI Child Site. The OCI Child Site is a dedicated Oracle deployment hosted inside a Google Cloud datacenter zone where Oracle Database services physically run.
Each OCI Child Site is securely connected to its corresponding OCI region, known as the OCI Parent Site, through a dedicated and redundant Oracle-managed private network. This connectivity model is similar to the internal networking used between OCI Availability Domains and enables seamless communication between the Oracle infrastructure hosted inside Google Cloud and the broader OCI platform.
The OCI Parent Site connection plays a critical role in supporting both control plane and data plane operations.
Also this architecture supports data plane communication between Oracle Database@Google Cloud and OCI-native services.
This connectivity is used for operations such as:
- Automated database backups to OCI Object Storage
- Integration with OCI Vault for security and encryption management
- Secure communication with OCI platform services
This enables organizations to leverage OCI-native automation and security services while operating entirely within the Google Cloud ecosystem.
Of course like shown in diagram , the architecture includes dedicated subnets for different Oracle database services:
- One subnet for Oracle Autonomous Database
- And one for client and backup subnets for Oracle Exadata Database Service
These services are securely connected to Google Cloud through redundant network hardware directly integrated with Google Cloud networking infrastructure.
This direct connectivity provides:
- High-performance communication
- Low-latency application access
- Enhanced resiliency
- Private network isolation
without requiring customers to configure complex cross-cloud interconnects manually.
For latency-sensitive enterprise applications, this architecture delivers a significant operational advantage.
Another important advantage is the collaborative support model between Oracle and Google Cloud.
Oracle manages:
- Oracle Database@Google Cloud infrastructure
- Infrastructure maintenance and updates
- Database platform operations
- Oracle-related issue resolution
Google customers remain responsible for:
- Database sizing and provisioning
- Application configuration
- Backup configuration
- Monitoring metrics and logs
- Database management operations
Google Cloud customers can monitor infrastructure metrics, logs, and events directly from the Google Cloud Console while relying on Oracle for infrastructure lifecycle management.
To summarize Oracle Database@Google Cloud is another strong example of how strategic partnerships between cloud providers are simplifying enterprise multicloud adoption.
By combining Oracle database services with Google Cloud infrastructure, organizations can modernize applications faster while benefiting from low latency, simplified operations, and integrated cloud services.
For professionals looking to gain more hands-on experience and successfully implement Oracle Database@Google Cloud solutions, I highly recommend exploring this specialized Oracle University learning path: Oracle Database@Google Cloud
Thanks for reading !
Sanae BEKKAR – Oracle ACE PRO –
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