Oracle has announced the opening of the Chile Cloud Region, marking Oracle’s 29th Cloud region worldwide. The opening is part of Oracle’s aggressive plan to have 38 cloud regions by the end of 2021. Many of Oracle’s cloud services became available to Latin American customers and partners as a result of the expansion, Oracle said. In related news, Google Cloud expanded its global network with new cloud regions in Chile, Germany and Saudi Arabia.
The new cloud region will deliver Oracle Cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database, Kubernetes, Oracle Cloud VMware platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Oracle Cloud Applications services. The new region will deliver multiple benefits to customers, especially to those in highly regulated industries with restrictions to access servers outside the national territory. In addition, Oracle’s first cloud region in Chile will also positively impact other Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia.
The Oracle Chile Cloud Region features multiple independent fault domains, enabling customers to deploy applications with high availability and it's also connected to a separate site in Sao Paulo, Brazil, as well as all of Oracle’s other cloud regions via Oracle Cloud’s private high-speed network backbone. This will allow organisations to deploy cloud services in multiple independent regions for disaster recovery, as well as host and store all transactional data in the region.
Oracle said it chose Chile as a strategic region because the country has been a pioneer in the adoption of public cloud services and Oracle has seen strong customer demand for cloud infrastructure in the region.
