As an underdog hyperscaler, Oracle has banked on building more data centers in more places than its larger competitors. The strategy promises to deliver lower latency and greater data control to meet data sovereignty requirements.
“We believe we just have to get into more countries than Amazon, let’s say, because we have to serve those countries where we have a large installed base,” Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said in a 2020 blog post.
In June, the company opened its first two European cloud regions to satisfy EU privacy and security regulations.
