Oracle Cloud A-OK to Help Air Force

The U.S. Department of Defense has given Oracle Cloud Infrastructure the thumbs-up to host top secret information.

Oracle will start processing some of the Air Force’s most sensitive data as a result. It’ll do so via its Oracle National Security Regions (ONSR). These are infrastructure instances isolated from the internet and connected only to government networks that meet certain security classifications.

The Air Force already uses various Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services.

Oracle expects to gain more Authority to Operate approvals to serve other branches of the U.S. military, too. For now, this latest foothold pits Oracle closer to competing against hyperscalers Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure at the highly classified government level.

“Oracle has long provided high performance, high availability and open computing to the DoD and intelligence community to securely run their most demanding, mission-critical classified workloads,” said Glen Dodson, senior vice president of Oracle’s national security group. “Oracle’s broad data management services and analytics, including built-in AI, are immensely valuable additions to the DoD’s multicloud strategy.”