Amazon and Google launch multicloud service for easier cloud-to-cloud connections

Tanya Weaver Mon 1 Dec 2025

Collected at: https://eandt.theiet.org/2025/12/01/amazon-and-google-launch-multicloud-service-easier-cloud-cloud-connections

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google have teamed up to launch a multicloud networking service that makes it easier for different cloud platforms to connect securely and at high speed.

The jointly developed multicloud networking solution combines AWS Interconnect – multicloud and Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect to enable users to create secure, private, high-speed links between the two cloud platforms.

The new multicloud interconnect solution will allow AWS networking services such as AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Cloud WAN and Amazon VPC to connect to Google Cloud far more quickly – often in minutes rather than weeks or months. In other words, it will enable clouds from different cloud service providers (CSPs) to connect and talk to each other more easily.

While the initial launch is with Google Cloud, AWS says that support for additional CSPs is planned for the future, including Microsoft Azure later in 2026.

According to AWS, the solution addresses the growing need for interoperability between CSPs as organisations continue to migrate more applications to the cloud. Previously, when these organisations attempted to interconnect workloads across multiple CSPs, they had to rely on a complex ‘do-it-yourself’ multicloud approach, which could take weeks or even months. 

With AWS Interconnect – multicloud, they are able to within minutes establish private, secure, high-speed network connections with dedicated bandwidth and built-in resiliency between their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds and other cloud environments (Google Cloud initially). 

Robert Kennedy, vice-president of network services at AWS, said: “This collaboration between AWS and Google Cloud represents a fundamental shift in multicloud connectivity. By defining and publishing a standard that removes the complexity of any physical components for customers, with high availability and security fused into that standard, customers no longer need to worry about any heavy lifting to create their desired connectivity.

“When they need multicloud connectivity, it’s ready to activate in minutes with a simple point and click.”

Cloud-based customer relationship management company Salesforce is among the early users of the new multicloud solution. Jim Ostrognai, senior vice-president of software engineering at Salesforce, says that with AWS Interconnect – multicloud, they are able to establish critical bridges from Salesforce Data 360 to Google Cloud with the “same ease as deploying internal AWS resources, utilising pre-built capacity pools and the tools our teams already know and love”.