Why Amazon and Google have joined their cloud services
What's the story
Amazon and Google have launched a new multicloud networking service, aimed at providing reliable connectivity. The service will let customers create private, high-speed connections between the two firms' computing platforms in minutes, rather than weeks. The announcement comes after an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20 affected thousands of websites globally, including popular ones like Snapchat and Reddit.
Service details
New service aims to enhance network interoperability
The new offering combines AWS's Interconnect-multicloud with Google Cloud's Cross-Cloud Interconnect, to improve network interoperability. "This collaboration between AWS and Google Cloud represents a fundamental shift in multicloud connectivity," said Robert Kennedy, VP of Network Services at AWS. Rob Enns, VP and GM of Cloud Networking at Google Cloud, added that the joint network is designed to simplify data and application transfers between clouds.
Early adoption
Salesforce among early adopters of new multicloud service
Salesforce is one of the first companies to use this new approach, according to a statement from Google Cloud. The tech giant's cloud business has seen tremendous growth in Q3, generating $33 billion in revenue, more than double that of Google's $15.16 billion. This comes as companies like Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon are investing heavily in infrastructure to meet the increasing internet traffic demands due to artificial intelligence services.