AWS and Google Cloud Forge Unlikely Alliance: New Multicloud Networking Platform Shakes Up Cloud Wars

Two cloud titans just called a truce in their trillion-dollar turf war. AWS and Google Cloud—normally locked in a brutal fight for enterprise dominance—are teaming up on a new multicloud networking platform. Forget vendor lock-in; this move is about capturing the entire market.

The New Rules of Engagement

This isn't a merger. It's a strategic detente. The platform lets data and applications flow seamlessly between AWS and Google Cloud environments. Companies can now deploy workloads wherever it makes the most technical or financial sense, without the usual integration nightmares. It bypasses the old playbook of forcing clients to pick a side.

Why This Cuts Deep

The alliance directly targets the chief pain point for modern enterprises: complexity. Managing multiple clouds has been a costly, operational hellscape. This platform promises to slash those overheads. It also puts immense pressure on Microsoft Azure, the other hyperscaler, which now faces a united front on a key battleground.

The Finance Angle: A Cynical Take

Let's be real—this 'cooperation' is a brilliantly cynical market grab. It's not about altruism; it's about fencing in the entire enterprise landscape. By making it easier to use both, they make it harder to justify using neither. It's the cloud equivalent of a duopoly offering a joint loyalty card. Wall Street will love the potential for expanded total addressable market, even if it means slightly less brutal competition between the two. For now.

The final move? Watching how this 'frenemy' pact reshapes power dynamics, while both giants quietly prepare for the next phase of the war.

AWS says the integration provides a private failover during disruptions 

According to AWS, the collaboration to FORM a multicloud networking service will allow enterprises to select a dedicated bandwidth option and establish an encrypted, redundant route across multiple facilities. AWS added that the service is designed to reduce manual setup, complex routing configurations, and physical infrastructure, which were previously required for multicloud networking. 

According to the Amazon cloud platform, the goal of the service is to simplify how customers connect Amazon VPC environments, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Cloud WAN to external providers, noting that it’s the first purpose-built multicloud connectivity service. The collaboration highlighted that the service will enhance performance and reliability for customers operating across various platforms. Currently, AWS’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect service offers private, high-speed connections to third-party environments. 

After the recent AWS outage on October 20, services were disrupted across many websites and applications, including Snapchat and Reddit, prompting the need for the latest integration. Parametrix analytics firm estimated that the outage cost the U.S. companies roughly between $500 million and $650 million. The collaboration for the multicloud service provides private failover pathways that enterprises can use to maintain continuity during disruptions. 

Salesforce is one of the firms already working with a joint multicloud service to support data movement and distributed workloads across platforms. According to AWS, the service is launching across five AWS Regions in preview. Furthermore, Microsoft Azure is expected to join the program in 2026, expanding cross-cloud connectivity to three major cloud providers. 

Google Cloud announced that the integration of its multicloud networking service was designed to streamline infrastructure for customers running multicloud deployments across data-intensive applications, such as AI workloads. The partnership noted that the first time a jointly developed standard for multicloud network connectivity has been made available by two hyperscalers. 

AWS releases an open interoperability specification as part of the release

As part of the launch of a multicloud networking service, the collaboration released an open interoperability specification that outlines its cross-cloud networking standards. The specification is publicly available for other cloud providers, network vendors, and service operators to adopt. Amazon Cloud Platform published the specification and support materials on GitHub, together with an open API package that allows other cloud service providers to integrate with AWS Interconnect multicloud in the future. 

Customers have previously expressed the need to manage multicloud approaches that involve global multilayered networks. According to AWS, the new service reduces complexity by offering a direct, managed connection between cloud environments. According to Google Cloud, the new service has been integrated with several security and reliability services, including Encryption between edge routers, Redundant connections across multiple facilities, dedicated private bandwidth options, and predictable routing without internet exposure. 

The infrastructure is designed to reduce downtime risk and provide stable performance for low-latency workloads. The new service is now available through the AWS Management Console for customers in preview regions. For Google Cloud, the integration is accessible via Cross-Cloud Interconnect. 

Amazon recorded $33 billion in revenue from AWS in Q3, marking it the largest cloud provider against Google Cloud’s $15.6 billion.  Amazon’s stock price has jumped 1.77% today, trading at $233.22. Alphabet’s stock on the other hand had maintained a moderate change, trading at $320 at the time of publication. 

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