The jointly engineered system links AWS Interconnect - multicloud with Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect, letting customers spin up private, high-speed links between the two clouds in minutes instead of the weeks or months it once took.

It’s the first tangible product of a broader collaboration to standardize multicloud networking, an area where customers have long been forced to cobble together their own infrastructure across vendors, physical circuits, and external integrators.

The companies have also published an open interoperability specification, positioning it as a blueprint any cloud provider can adopt.

If competitors follow suit, it could mark a major shift toward a more open cloud ecosystem, something enterprises have been demanding as they spread workloads across multiple platforms for cost, resilience, and regulatory reasons.

Beyond flexibility, the new service leans heavily on reliability.

Google and AWS say the system uses quad-redundant interconnect facilities and MACsec encryption between each provider’s edge routers, with continuous monitoring on both sides.

For customers, multicloud connectivity becomes a cloud-native feature rather than a hardware project.

Robert Kennedy, VP of Network Services at AWS, said in a statement: “This collaboration between AWS and Google Cloud represents a fundamental shift in multicloud connectivity.

“By defining and publishing a standard that removes the complexity of any physical components for customers, with high availability and security fused into that standard, customers no longer need to worry about any heavy lifting to create their desired connectivity.

“When they need multicloud connectivity, it's ready to activate in minutes with a simple point and click.”

Salesforce, an early adopter, said the service lets it tie data from Google Cloud directly into AWS-based systems that power its AI and analytics tools, without re-architecting existing infrastructure.