Oracle Cloud Drives Uber’s Expansion

Uber, the on-demand mobility and delivery service, is leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support its unprecedented growth, which includes managing over one million trips every hour. By modernizing its application tier and AI infrastructure, Uber is migrating substantial portions of its operational big data and streaming stack to OCI, driving profitable growth and accelerating innovation.

Since choosing Oracle in 2023, Uber has transitioned thousands of microservices, multiple data storage platforms, and numerous AI models to OCI. This shift enables Uber to better manage its infrastructure costs while enhancing its ability to innovate and deliver new products.

Kamran Zargahi, Senior Director of Tech Strategy and Cloud Engineering at Uber, highlighted the advantages of this collaboration: “As we expand and explore new markets, Oracle’s cloud services provide the flexibility we need to ensure optimal customer experiences. OCI allows us to innovate rapidly and scale efficiently, supporting our multicloud strategy and growth objectives.”

Uber has made significant strides by migrating its trip-serving requests to OCI Compute with AMD and converting many stateless workloads to OCI Compute with Ampere Arm. This transition has improved the performance and cost-efficiency of its AI services, which now benefit from OCI’s advanced AI infrastructure for optimized throughput and latency.

In addition, Uber has migrated a large portion of its Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) environment and re-platformed its storage to OCI Object Storage. This move offers nearly unlimited scalability and high durability for its data storage needs.

Karan Batta, Senior Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, praised Uber’s forward-thinking approach: “Uber exemplifies how multicloud partnerships can enhance service delivery and customer satisfaction. We are excited to continue evolving our cloud partnership as Uber progresses through its rapid growth.”

With OCI, Uber is well-positioned to meet the demands of a dynamic market and continue its trajectory of innovation and expansion.