This is more than just a connection — it’s a complete shift in how you adopt multicloud solutions. We are delivering substantial value to our mutual customers:
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Simplicity and speed: Say goodbye to complex networking builds. This is a fully managed, cloud-native experience where a cross-cloud connection is as easy as peering two VPCs. We’re cutting end-to-end setup time from days to mere minutes, with flexible, on-demand bandwidth starting at 1 Gbps during preview and scaling up to 100 Gbps at general availability.
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Secure by default: Your data’s security is paramount. All connections between the two clouds’ edge routers are MACsec-encrypted — providing line-rate performance with always-on encryption — for a more secure foundation.
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Inherently resilient: Benefit from an inherently resilient architecture that provides layers of protection against facility, network, and software failures, ensuring your critical applications remain online.
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Open and optimized: The foundation is an open specification for seamless adoption across the industry. You can also benefit from an optimized total cost of ownership through vendor consolidation and an on-demand service model that lets you provision exactly what you need, when you need it.
This service is launching with availability in key locations like N. Virginia, Oregon, London, and Frankfurt, with rapid expansion planned to more locations globally.
Simplifying cross-cloud connectivity
Before today’s jointly engineered solution, building applications that spanned multiple cloud environments was a significant undertaking, often becoming a barrier to multicloud adoption. Customers faced a complex, multi-layered process that involved cross-functional teams and substantial lead times.
A typical deployment required several intricate steps:
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Procurement: Acquiring physical connections, whether dedicated or through a shared partner offering, and then building and managing the necessary infrastructure to ensure network availability and separation of fate.
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Logical configuration: Establishing basic connectivity by meticulously assigning and negotiating non-overlapping link-local IP addresses and setting up VLANs.
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Routing setup: Configuring BGP sessions, assigning Autonomous System (AS) numbers, and creating complex routing policies to meet specific performance and reliability requirements.
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Security implementation: Conducting thorough security reviews and implementing custom solutions to encrypt traffic between the distinct cloud environments.
The integrated partner Cross-Cloud Interconnect offering completely abstracts away this complexity. Customers can now bypass all the manual steps and instantly leverage pre-built physical connections with built-in security and resiliency, achieving streamlined, on-demand connectivity between their Google Cloud VPCs and AWS.
Building this powerful cross-cloud connection is now remarkably simple. Customers configure a single “transport” resource in Google Cloud and accept it in AWS. This transport is an innovative, managed construct that completely abstracts and provisions the underlying physical interconnects, VLAN attachments, and Cloud Router instances. This profound simplification enables end-to-end connectivity in minutes, transforming multicloud deployment from a days-long engineering project into a simple, rapid configuration task.
