Until now, connecting AWS and Google Cloud meant stitching together VPNs over the public internet, colocating in the same facility with two separate cross-connects, or paying a third-party network provider to bridge the gap. These approaches work - plenty of companies rely on them daily - but they all come with operational overhead and added complexity that make multi-cloud connectivity harder to set up and maintain than it needs to be.

That changed on April 14, 2026, when AWS launched AWS Interconnect - multicloud with Google Cloud as the first partner. For the first time, you can provision a dedicated, private connection between AWS and GCP directly from the console - no middleman, no colo, no VPN tunnels.…