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Two of the three largest cloud providers are cooperating for simplified multicloud operation. AWS and Google Cloud emphasize improved reliability and security.
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Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have jointly developed a network solution for the use of various cloud services. Despite the competition among cloud providers, customers should be able to use both services in parallel in a significantly simpler way. Previously, this was only possible for users with their own, and especially time-consuming, effort. In addition, AWS and Google Cloud are opening up the corresponding programming interfaces to other services. The corporations see this as a step towards a more open cloud environment.
AWS is currently the world's largest cloud provider, followed by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Together, these three services account for 63 percent of the market share, as a recent market study shows. However, AWS's leading position is shrinking, while Azure and Google Cloud are catching up. AWS remains in the lead with 29 percent market share, Azure follows with 20 percent, and Google Cloud ranks third with 13 percent.
Amazon already offers a way to use multiple cloud services with "AWS Interconnect - multicloud", and Google has a similar offering with "Cross-Cloud Interconnect". But now the companies have jointly developed a multicloud network solution that allows customers to use both cloud services simultaneously relatively easily. Previously, this was only possible with significant manual effort on the part of the users and required the setup of complex network components and connections. This often took weeks or even months.
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In contrast, the newly developed multicloud network solution from AWS and Google requires no changes to the network infrastructure, as the various cloud services can now be administered and managed via software. For this purpose, AWS has been integrated into Google's cross-cloud network architecture, as Google writes. And Amazon announced at the current re:Invent event that "AWS Interconnect - multicloud" can now also connect to Google's cloud services.
Salesforce, although the company also offers cloud solutions itself, is one of the first customers of this multicloud network solution from AWS and Google. "The integration of Salesforce Data 360 into the existing IT landscape requires robust, private connectivity," explains Salesforce manager Jim Ostrognai. "AWS Interconnect – Multicloud enables us to establish these important bridges to Google Cloud just as easily as when deploying internal AWS resources." This "accelerates our customers' ability to base their AI and analytics on trusted data, regardless of where it is stored."
According to Google, "reliability and security form the foundation of this collaboration." This multicloud network solution is intended to "ensure the highest availability through quadruple redundancy of physically redundant connection facilities and routers." The latter is likely to be one of the main reasons for this cooperation, especially after recent outages in cloud services. In October, Amazon Web Services suffered a global outage, disrupting various internet services such as video streaming, online gaming, and even smartphone messaging.
However, the new multicloud network solution is not intended to be limited to AWS and Google Cloud. The API specifications have been published on Github, so that other cloud providers can also adapt these programming interfaces to make their software and storage clouds more easily usable in parallel with other offerings.
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