Uber, an American transportation network company, has struck agreements with cloud giants Oracle and Google to migrate 95% of the contents of its data centers onto the cloud, with plans to use other services like Google Ads, the Google Maps platform, and database provider Cloud Spanner.
According to Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, both agreements have a seven-year term. Uber’s move to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) will enable the company to increase productivity and scale while drastically cutting costs. The transfer should be concluded “within a few years.
In accordance with the agreement, Uber will move its data and applications to Google Cloud in order to update its infrastructure and make use of Google Cloud capabilities like artificial intelligence, machine learning, security, and microservices.
Oracle and Uber have a mutually beneficial relationship. Oracle has signed up as an international Uber for Business client and has chosen Uber as its preferred ridesharing service for its workers’ travel and dining internationally. Together, the two companies have also promised to create new retail and delivery strategies.
“To deliver on [our] promise for customers while building value for shareholders, we needed a cloud provider that will help us maximize innovation while reducing our overall infrastructure costs,” said Khosrowshahi in a statement.
Kamran Zargahi, Uber’s senior director of technology strategy, told The Wall Street Journal that moving to a cloud provider will lessen the firm’s reliance on hardware supply chains and allow it to take advantage of certain cybersecurity defenses and compliance standards.
