Overview
- The jointly engineered service lets customers establish private, high‑speed links between AWS and Google Cloud in minutes instead of weeks.
- AWS Interconnect–multicloud and Google Cloud’s Cross‑Cloud Interconnect are coordinated through the new Connection Coordinator API, which the companies have published for others to adopt.
- Preview connections start at 1 Gbps on demand with plans to scale to 100 Gbps at general availability, and the private lines use MACsec encryption.
- Salesforce is piloting the approach as an early user, and AWS says support for Microsoft Azure is planned for 2026.
- The launch follows an October 20 AWS outage that hit thousands of services and sharpened customer focus on multicloud resiliency as AI workloads drive higher‑bandwidth needs.