Outages at major web hosts can have huge impacts across society, as we see often such as with the recent Cloudflare outage. But a new collaboration between Amazon and Google might just be the start of putting major outages in the past.
AWS and Google Cloud interconnect offers layers of protection against outages
Amazon and Google have unveiled a new cross-cloud initiative that enables new levels of interoperability between AWS and Google Cloud.
From Google’s announcement post:
Today, AWS and Google Cloud are excited to announce a jointly engineered multicloud networking solution that uses both AWS Interconnect – multicloud and Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect. This collaboration also introduces a new open specification for network interoperability, enabling customers to establish private, high-speed connectivity between Google Cloud and AWS with high levels of automation and speed.
Amazon’s announcement highlights that while AWS’s first partner is Google Cloud, the new ‘interconnect’ system will also roll out for Microsoft Azure “later in 2026.”
There are all kinds of good reasons to build multi-cloud hosting solutions. One specifically mentioned by Google is the benefit of increased layers of protection against network failures.
The company says: “Benefit from an inherently resilient architecture that provides layers of protection against facility, network, and software failures, ensuring your critical applications remain online.”
This is just a start, but as multi-cloud solutions become more popular, they should hopefully result in major outages having far less impact than they do now.
If critical systems can fall back to a secondary host when one provider suffers an outage, end users won’t have to deal with the consequences.
What do you think of Amazon and Google’s new interconnect solution? Let us know in the comments.
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