Oracle is doubling down on multicloud—this time in Canada. The company has officially launched Oracle Database@Google Cloud in the North America-Northeast 1 (Montreal) and North America-Northeast 2 (Toronto) Google Cloud regions, giving Canadian organizations a direct path to run Oracle’s flagship AI-driven database services inside Google Cloud while keeping data local for sovereignty and compliance needs.

It’s a strategic expansion that brings Oracle’s high-performance Exadata platforms, Autonomous AI Database, and Autonomous AI Lakehouse into Google Cloud’s backyard, building on the unusual but increasingly valuable partnership between the two tech giants. For Canadian enterprises—especially those in regulated sectors—this move delivers something they’ve been demanding for years: true multicloud optionality without awkward networking workarounds or cross-border data risk.

Why This Matters: Multicloud, But Without the Multicloud Headaches

For years, multicloud has been the strategy companies talk about more than they execute. Oracle and Google Cloud are trying to change that by offering something rare: native Oracle database services running on OCI hardware inside Google Cloud regions, with low-latency integration to BigQuery, Vertex AI, and Gemini.

For customers, that means:

• Oracle databases stay on Oracle’s optimized infrastructure

• Applications stay on Google Cloud

• Data stays in-region to meet strict Canadian compliance rules

• Partners can resell and integrate the offering directly through Google Cloud Marketplace

In practical terms, enterprises get Oracle’s database performance and reliability combined with Google Cloud’s AI ecosystem—without juggling cloud networking gymnastics or sacrificing sovereignty. It’s a direction the industry is increasingly warming to, as workloads become more distributed and AI ambitions grow.

“As more organizations in Canada embrace multicloud architectures, this provides the industry-leading reliability and performance that is required,” said Vijay Bangaru, VP of Multicloud at OCI. Google Cloud echoes the sentiment: Canadian organizations want AI-powered modernization, but they also want optionality.

What’s Available on Day One

Canadian customers can now run a suite of Oracle’s top-tier database technologies inside Google Cloud regions:

Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure

Designed for heavy-duty workloads—AI, analytics, OLTP—Exadata X11M support and Oracle RAC provide the performance and uptime that traditional enterprise systems live and die by.

Oracle Autonomous AI Database

This fully managed, AI-infused platform automates patching, tuning, scaling, backups, and threat detection. With built-in ML capabilities and support for more than 48 billion queries per hour, it’s built for organizations that want high performance without high overhead.

Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse

Built on Apache Iceberg and integrated with Oracle AI Database 26ai and Exadata, the Lakehouse extends analytics and AI across Google BigQuery and BigLake. The cross-platform flexibility is a notable win for teams dealing with large, scattered data estates.

Oracle AI Database 26ai

Packed with more than 300 new features, including Hybrid Vector Search and JSON Relational Duality Views, the new release strengthens Oracle’s pitch that AI-first database design is the next frontier. Integrations with LLMs mean organizations can blend private enterprise data with public models to surface richer insights.

Oracle Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service

Real-time protection with sub-second recovery points gives customers the ability to withstand outages and ransomware attacks without losing critical transactions. Automated validation, immutable backups, and incremental-forever architecture reduce operational risk.

Multicloud Gets a Partner-Friendly Boost

Alongside the Canadian launch, Oracle and Google unveiled an industry-first partner program that lets Google Cloud and Oracle partners purchase and resell Oracle Database@Google Cloud through Google Cloud Marketplace. Deloitte Canada has already thrown its support behind the initiative, framing it as a major accelerator for multicloud modernization.

To participate, partners must belong to both Google Cloud Partner Advantage and Oracle PartnerNetwork—another sign the companies want their ecosystems tightly aligned as demand scales.

A Growing Global Footprint

The new Toronto region joins an increasingly long list of supported Google Cloud regions offering Oracle Database@Google Cloud, spanning Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, and Latin America. More locations are scheduled over the next year, including Seoul, Osaka, Delhi, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Turin, Dammam, Mexico, and Santiago—mirroring Oracle’s aggressive global push to make AI-enabled multicloud more accessible.

This expansion underscores a broader trend: customers want cloud choice, performance guarantees, and region-specific compliance—all at the same time. And vendors are finally aligning with that reality.

Canadian Enterprises Get What They’ve Been Waiting For

With this launch, enterprises in Canada—financial institutions, public sector agencies, healthcare networks, and more—can now keep sensitive data within borders while tapping into Oracle’s database performance and Google Cloud’s AI capabilities.

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