Amazon and Google on Sunday unveiled a jointly developed multi-cloud networking service to meet growing demand for reliable connectivity, the companies said in a statement, as even brief internet outages can cause widespread disruptions. This is reported by Reuters, writes UNN.
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The new initiative allows customers to create private high-speed connections between the computing platforms of both companies in minutes instead of weeks.
The service is being introduced just over a month after a massive outage on October 20 at Amazon Web Services, which disrupted thousands of websites worldwide, including popular apps Snapchat and Reddit. According to analytics firm Parametrix, the incident caused $500 million to $650 million in damages to US companies.
According to announcements from cloud providers, the new offering combines AWS's Interconnect–multicloud with Google Cloud's Cross-Cloud Interconnect to improve network compatibility. AWS provides computing resources, data storage, and other digital services to companies, governments, and private users, and is the world's largest cloud service provider, second only to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Big tech companies, including Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon, are investing billions in developing infrastructure capable of handling growing internet traffic and the increasing demands of artificial intelligence. Amazon's cloud division showed steady growth in the third quarter, earning $33 billion, more than double Google's $15 billion in revenue.