Giants in Sync: AWS and Google Cloud Break Barriers in Multicloud Connectivity
The era of the “wall” between major cloud providers seems to be coming to an end. In a historic move announced this Sunday (Nov. 30), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud revealed a joint network service that promises to transform multicloud architecture from a complex technical challenge into a few-clicks operation.
For IT leaders and FinOps experts, this news isn’t just about cables and latency: it is about the strategic freedom to use the best of each cloud, and get rewarded for it.
Connectivity in Minutes, Not Weeks
The new solution integrates the newly launched AWS Interconnect – multicloud with Google Cloud’s existing Cross-Cloud Interconnect. The goal is to eliminate the historic friction of connecting distinct environments.
Until now, establishing a private, high-speed link between AWS and Google Cloud required weeks of planning, physical circuit provisioning, and complex routing configurations. With the new service, companies can establish these connections in minutes, directly via console or API, abstracting physical infrastructure complexity.
This agility meets a critical demand for resilience. The announcement comes just over a month after a significant AWS outage on October 20, 2025, which affected thousands of global services and cost American companies hundreds of millions of dollars. The ease of connection encourages redundant architectures that can mitigate similar risks in the future.
What This Means for Your Multicloud Strategy
For The Cloud Circle community members, this integration validates a thesis we have long defended: the future is hybrid and agnostic.
- Best-of-Breed: It is now easier to keep your transactional data on AWS while using Google Cloud’s advanced AI and BigQuery resources, without suffering from prohibitive latency or complex network workarounds.
- Operational Resilience: The ease of creating private links allows for much more robust and faster-to-implement Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across clouds.
- Simplified Governance: By transforming connectivity into a cloud-native managed service, infrastructure teams reduce operational overhead, allowing engineers to focus on innovation rather than network maintenance.
Robert Kennedy, Vice President of Networking Services at AWS, described the partnership as a “fundamental shift in multicloud connectivity,” signaling that competition will now take place on the service and value layer, rather than on infrastructure lock-in.
FinOps and Benefits: Turn Cost into Advantage
With the technical barrier lowered, cross-cloud consumption is likely to increase. This is where financial intelligence becomes crucial. Facilitating data transfer is excellent for agility but demands doubled attention to data transfer and networking costs.
The good news for The Cloud Circle clients is that our platform was designed exactly for this scenario. Whether your invoice grows on AWS or Google Cloud due to this new ease of integration: consumption on both generates points.
By centralizing your cloud cost management with us, you:
- Unified View: Track the growth of your multicloud environment with clarity.
- Double Gain: That data transfer cost or the new instance provisioned for redundancy converts into points.
- Reinvest in the Team: Exchange points for certifications, training, or tickets to events like AWS re:Invent and Google Cloud Next, essential for keeping your team up to date on these very innovations.
The new partnership between AWS and Google has torn down the technical walls. The Cloud Circle tears down the financial walls, turning your operational expense into growth for your business.
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