Amazon and Google launch multicloud service for faster connectivity

Nov 30 (Reuters) - Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOG) introduced a jointly developed multicloud networking work connected Sunday to conscionable increasing request for ​reliable connectivity the companies said successful a statement, astatine a clip erstwhile ‌even little net disruptions tin origin large outages.

The inaugural volition alteration customers to found private, high-speed ‌links betwixt the 2 companies' computing platforms successful minutes alternatively of weeks.

The caller work is being unveiled a small implicit a period aft an Amazon Web Services outage connected October 20 disrupted thousands of websites worldwide, knocking offline immoderate of the internet's astir fashionable ⁠apps, including Snapchat and ‌Reddit. That outage volition outgo U.S. companies betwixt $500 cardinal and $650 cardinal successful losses, according to analytics steadfast ‍Parametrix.

The caller offering combines AWS' Interconnect–multicloud with Google Cloud's Cross-Cloud Interconnect, to amended web interoperability, according to announcements by the 2 unreality providers.

"This collaboration betwixt AWS and ​Google Cloud represents a cardinal displacement successful multicloud connectivity," said Robert Kennedy,‌ vice president of web services astatine AWS.

Rob Enns, vice president and wide manager of unreality networking astatine Google Cloud, said the associated web is intended to marque it easier for customers to determination information and applications betwixt clouds.

Salesforce is among the aboriginal users of the caller approach, Google Cloud said successful a statement.

AWS provides computing ⁠power, information retention and different integer services to ​companies, governments and individuals and is the world'​s largest unreality provider, followed by Microsoft's Azure and Google Cloud.

Tech companies including Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions to ‍build infrastructure that tin ⁠handle surging net postulation with the increasing demands of artificial intelligence, arsenic the request for computing powerfulness to enactment these services accelerates.

Amazon’s unreality concern delivered ⁠robust maturation successful the 3rd quarter, generating $33 cardinal successful revenue; much than treble that of ‌Google's $15.16 billion.

(Reporting by Mihika Sharma and Mrinmay ‌Dey successful Bengaluru; Editing by Ronojoy Mazumdar)