Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are making their clouds interoperable in a move that will be welcomed by multicloud enterprises.
In a blog post, the two cloud giants said they are simplifying how enterprises string together interconnects between AWS and Google Cloud. The news lands as AWS kicks off its AWS re:Invent 2025 conference in Las Vegas.
The two companies jointly engineered a multicloud networking system that uses both AWS Interconnect - multicloud and Google Cloud's Cross-Cloud Interconnect.
According to AWS and Google Cloud, the companies will also introduce a new open specification for network interoperability. Customers should be able to establish private high-speed connectivity between AWS and Google Cloud.
With enterprises rolling out architectures for AI adoption and AI agents, the idea of do-it-yourself cloud networking wasn't going to fly. For example, Salesforce, which uses both AWS and Google Cloud, said the interconnect between the two cloud will be critical for Salesforce Data 360.
Here’s a look at how the interconnect between AWS and Google Cloud would work.
AWS said that the unified specification can be adopted by any cloud provider.
Key points:
- The multicloud connectivity from AWS and Google Cloud mean there will be a managed cloud-native experience.
- The joint effort will abstract physical connectivity, network addressing and routing policies.
- Bandwidth can be provisioned on demand via their preferred cloud console or API.
- The companies published the API specifications.
Holger Mueller, an analyst at Constellation Research, said the collaboration is a good first step.
"Enterprises have their data fragmented across the cloud, but AI forces them to connect them. So it is good to see the partnership between AWS and Google to help customers. But voiding the spec of the interconnect, specifically latency - we can only go for the precursor of this - between Azure and OCI. And that was too slow for analytics use cases - hence Oracle moved the Exadata machines inside of Azure. We will see what use cases CxOs can power from the new partnership - but based on the past - hope should not be too high."
Rob Kennedy, VP of Network Services at AWS, said at re:Invent 2025, that AWS will also be connecting to Microsoft's Azure interconnect in the near future. Key points from Kennedy:
- Customers asked for interconnects that went across clouds not just on-premises data centers. "We decided to really solve this problem for our customers and just create a full managed solution that kind of abstracts away all the physical components," said Kennedy. "They can simply turn up bandwidth between multiple locations cloud providers."
- Defining the standard should make it easier to combine clouds and "we've already got buy-in from both GCP and Azure," said Kennedy. "We hope to continue to get buy in from others as we continue to move forward. And it's a full global service."
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