Oracle's high-performance database machine optimized for running Oracle databases. Like a sports car specifically designed for racing - built for maximum database performance.
Large enterprises use Exadata for their most demanding database workloads requiring extreme performance and reliability.
Exadata is an Oracle-engineered system (hardware + software) optimized specifically for Oracle Database. AWS, Azure, and GCP don’t offer a direct Exadata equivalent; their closest options are managed Oracle Database offerings or high-performance database platforms, but without Exadata’s storage offload and engineered-system optimizations. On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Exadata is available as a managed service (including Cloud@Customer for on-premises deployment with cloud control plane).