Oracle to connect OCI to AWS Interconnect-multicloud

Oracle said it will connect its cloud to AWS Interconnect-multicloud as an option for joint customers.

AWS Interconnect-multicloud was outlined at AWS re:Invent 2025. To date, AWS and Google Cloud have connected their clouds with the standard.

Oracle said it built on the AWS Interconnect open specification to connect and move data seamlessly between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS.

Nathan Thomas, senior vice president, product management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, said using AWS Interconnect complements other services such as Oracle AI Database@AWS.

"With Oracle AI Database@AWS, we pioneered a simpler way for customers to run Oracle AI Database workloads in AWS with the same features, architecture, and performance as they expect on premises. We’re now building on that by utilizing AWS Interconnect’s open specification to extend our popular cross-cloud interconnect capabilities to AWS. This will help our mutual customers modernize their applications, unify their data, and unlock new generative AI opportunities," said Thomas.

Thomas added that OCI now has native interconnects to all the major hyperscale cloud providers.

Key points for joint customers include:

• The combination of OCI and AWS Interconnect-multicloud supports both full and split-stack multicloud environments.
• OCI and AWS are looking to connect clouds without managing multiple networking providers.
• The interconnect aims to simplify multi‑cloud networking, offer high bandwidth (up to 100 Gbps), automated redundancy/load balancing and a collaborative support model with AWS.
• Customers can build applications across both clouds running business systems on one while leveraging AI, disaster recovery and analytics on the other.
• The collaboration between OCI and AWS Interconnect-multicloud will be available later this year in the AWS US East region in Virginia.
• On the OCI side, there are no egress/bandwidth fees (consistent with other cloud service provider interconnects). Customers pay OCI for ports/virtual circuits, sized by port speed.
• This interconnect is positioned for high‑throughput data transfer and AI/disaster‑recovery workloads, not ultra‑low‑latency transactional use cases. For the latter, Oracle AI Database@AWS (Exadata in‑region) is preferred.

Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller said:

"At the end of the day – it is the customer who has to win. And that is what Oracle and AWS are going after with the AWS Interconnect – an easy an efficient way to setup data exchange between OCI and AWS Clouds – to enable manifold use cases, from non-critical latency all the way to AI scenarios. It's a good move by Oracle and AWS for their joint customers."

By now enterprise data is in fragments across multiple public clouds and on premises. To be able to leverage data better - often following the rules of data gravity - enterprises need to exchange, route and move data across clouds. It's good to see a standard connection with AWS and Oracle. The endorsement and work with Oracle is a major step forward to establish a standard. Now we just have to wait for the other two clouds."