AWS Interconnect - multicloud (Preview)

Interconnect - multicloud is a new capability that simplifies multicloud connectivity between AWS and other major cloud service providers, starting with Google Cloud. The first purpose-built product of its kind, Interconnect - multicloud is a managed connection that enables customers to establish private, resilient, high-speed network connections with dedicated bandwidth between their Amazon VPCs and other cloud environments.

Interconnect - multicloud is easy to configure and enables customers to interconnect AWS networking services such as Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, and VPC to other Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) with ease.

Customers no longer have to manually set up complex networks including physical connections and routing protocols. Now, in the AWS Console or Command Line Interface (CLI), customers can get multicloud connectivity in three simple steps: 1/ specify the target cloud service providers, 2/ select the destination region on the other side, and 3/ pick the required bandwidth. Once provisioning is completed, customers receive a single attachment that represents network capacity to their chosen provider.

We created a new customer interface and standardized specifications/APIs that other cloud providers such as Google Cloud are adopting. All aspects of the physical infrastructure, capacity scaling ahead of time, and the support experience are now owned by the providers.

The API specifications developed for this product are open for other providers and partners to adopt, and aim to standardize and simplify global connectivity for everyone.

AWS and Google Cloud collaborated to transform how cloud service providers could connect with each other in a simplified manner. This collaboration introduces a new open specification for network interoperability, enabling customers to establish private, high-speed connectivity between AWS and Google Cloud with high levels of automation and speed. AWS had a vision for developing this capability as a unified specification that could be adopted by any cloud service provider, and collaborated with Google Cloud to bring it to market. Customers no longer need to wait weeks for circuit provisioning: they can now provision dedicated bandwidth on-demand and establish connectivity in minutes through their preferred cloud console or API. This solution delivers the highest resiliency by leveraging quad-redundancy across physically redundant interconnect facilities and routers. Both providers engage in continuous, monitoring to proactively detect and resolve issues. And this solution utilizes MACsec encryption between the Google Cloud and AWS edge routers.