In response to the increasing demand for dependable connectivity, Amazon and Google announced a jointly created multicloud networking service on Sunday, according to a statement from the firms.
This comes at a time when even minor internet delays can result in significant outages.
The effort will enable users to build private, high-speed linkages between the two businesses’ computer platforms in minutes instead of weeks.
The new service is being announced a little over a month after an Amazon Web Services outage on October 20 affected thousands of websites globally, taking offline some of the internet’s most popular apps, including Snapchat and Reddit.
That downtime would cost U.S. corporations between $500 million and $650 million in losses, according to analytics firm Parametrix.
The new product combines AWS’ Interconnect multicloud with Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect to promote network interoperability, according to statements by the two cloud providers.
“This collaboration between AWS and Google Cloud represents a fundamental shift in multicloud connectivity,” said Robert Kennedy, vice president of network services at AWS.
The collaborative network is meant to facilitate customers’ transfer of data and apps between clouds, according to Rob Enns, vice president and general manager of cloud networking at Google Cloud.
According to a statement from Google Cloud, Salesforce is one of the early adopters of the new strategy.
AWS is the largest cloud provider in the world, offering computing power, data storage, and other digital services to businesses, governments, and individuals.
Microsoft’s Azure and Google Cloud come next.
As the requirement for processing power to serve these services increases, tech companies like Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon are investing billions to construct infrastructure that can handle soaring internet traffic with the expanding demands of artificial intelligence.
In the third quarter, Amazon’s cloud division had strong growth, bringing in $33 billion, more than twice as much as Google’s $15.16 billion.
