The focus, according to Yuhanna, is on ensuring high availability, and since the regions are geographically isolated, an outage in one doesn’t necessarily impact the other.

Availability in 20 additional regions

In addition to the US regions, Oracle and AWS plan to expand the availability of Oracle Database@AWS to 20 regions over the next 12-18 months, said Kambiz Aghili, VP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

These regions include Canada (Central), Frankfurt, Hyderabad, Ireland, London, Melbourne, Milan, Mumbai, Osaka, Paris, São Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Spain, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and Zurich.