Over the past few years, the public cloud adoption has become mainstream and the enterprises take advantage of the cloud in term of cost reduction, agility, flexibility, automation and self-service activities.
But it exists a large portion of critical workloads that due to regulatory and performance-related contraints, cannot currently be moved to the public cloud. To solve those restrictions, Oracle has engineered a unique solution named Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer (DRCC).
Designed as alternative to the OCI public cloud, it offers the same services at the same conditions available on the OCI public regions, inside the customer’s data center.
The main use cases for the DRCC adoption are associated to the following constraints:
- Data Sovereignty
- Security and Control
- Network Latency
Data Sovereignty
Data sovereignty generally refers to government efforts to prevent their citizens’ data from falling into the wrong hands via measures that restrict how businesses can transfer personal information beyond their country’s borders. Those measures can be in the form of regulations—think General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union, which regulates data privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area as well as the transfer of personal data from those regions, or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which gives citizens the right to know what personal information companies collect about them and how it is used and shared.
source: https://www.oracle.com/security/saas-security/data-sovereignty/
Security and Control
Restricting the physical access to the data center to special granted employees, and keeping the data behind the company’s firewall.
Network Latency
Specific applications (like trading or Voice over IP) are very sensitive to the increase of the network latency, therefore cannot be easily relocated to the public cloud.
DRCC Overview
As previously mentioned, the DRCC implementation offers the same services at the same conditions available on the OCI public region, for a full list of OCI services and associated SLA please check this link.
The main differences between the DRCC and the OCI region are:
- It is built inside the customer’s premises
- Data never leaves the customer’s premises
- The infrastructure is remotely managed by Oracle
- All resources are dedicated to one tenant
High level DRCC architecture
List of currently available major DRCC services
DRCC Benefits
Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer brings all public cloud capabilities on-premises, so the enterprises can reduce infrastructure and operational costs, upgrade legacy applications on modern cloud platform, and meet the most demanding regulatory, data residency and latency requirements:
- Bring all existing OCI services (at the time of this blog post around 80) including the Autonomous Database, eliminating any technical debt.
- Leading cloud performance
- Security-first architecture that reduces the risk and attack surfaces
- Keep full control of all data to meet the most demanding data privacy and latency requirements.
- Pay only for the services consumed and during the utilization period.
- Deploy seamlessly between on-premises and public cloud, using the exact same tools, APIs, and SLA available in OCI and DRCC.
- Single-vendor cloud accountability and management for all cloud platform, database, and infrastructure
Conclusion
Oracle DRCC unique characteristics offers cloud-scale security, resiliency and superior performance, allowing to meet the most stringents requirements in terms of data residency and latency.
DRCC expands the public OCI offers, enabling customers to build and operate modern applications inside their data center at the same price offered in Oracle’s public cloud.
More details about DRCC are available at the follwing Oracle corporate link.
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