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See our ethics statement.Image: The VergeEmma RothCloseEmma RothPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.Google and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to offer a link between their cloud services, as reported earlier by Reuters. With this tool, companies can establish a private connection between AWS and Google Cloud within “minutes,” giving online businesses a possible safety net if either of the providers experiences an outage.Though the tool is positioned as a way for customers to easily gain access to services from multiple cloud providers, Google says it comes with a “proactive monitoring system that detects and reacts to failures before customers suffer from their consequences.” It also offers a coordinated maintenance system designed to “avoid overlaps” that could impact service.In October, AWS experienced a major outage that took down a swath of services, including Fortnite, Alexa, and Snapchat. Both Microsoft Azure and Cloudflare suffered outages in the following weeks, raising concerns about the risks of relying on just a handful of major internet infrastructure providers. AWS plans on rolling out a link to Microsoft Azure next year.As noted in Google’s blog post, companies trying to connect cloud service providers would have to “manually set up complex networking components, including physical connections and equipment” in a process that could take weeks or months. 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Amazon and Google are collaborating to introduce a new tool designed to mitigate the risks associated with relying solely on a single cloud provider. This initiative, spearheaded by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, aims to facilitate the establishment of private connections between the two platforms within a timeframe of “minutes” for companies. The core functionality centers around allowing businesses to quickly gain access to services from both AWS and Google Cloud simultaneously, effectively creating a redundant infrastructure in the event of an outage affecting one provider. Google emphasizes that this tool is coupled with a “proactive monitoring system” capable of detecting and responding to failures before they impact customers. Furthermore, a coordinated maintenance system is implemented to prevent overlapping maintenance activities that could disrupt service availability. Prior disruptions, such as the October AWS outage which impacted services like Fortnite, Alexa, and Snapchat, alongside subsequent outages affecting Microsoft Azure and Cloudflare, have underscored the vulnerabilities present when dependent on a limited number of major internet infrastructure suppliers. The developers intend to expand this connectivity initiative, with a planned rollout connecting AWS to Microsoft Azure slated for next year. Historically, establishing these connections demanded a significantly more complex and time-consuming process, requiring manual configurations of intricate networking components, including physical connections and specialized equipment—a process often spanning weeks or even months. This new tool leverages cloud console and API functionalities to streamline the process dramatically. The collaboration represents an attempt to address a systemic concern within the digital infrastructure landscape—the potential for widespread service interruptions due to single points of failure, and the recognition of the increasing need for robust, multi-cloud redundancy solutions.