So they have just made it a lilttle easier to have different systems on their clouds communicate with each other; now for the real magic, enable a customer distribute a single system and DB across their clouds and then support straight-forward migration...
AWS and Google build a fix for multi-cloud barriers they said didn't exist
AWS and Google Cloud are promoting a jointly developed multi-cloud connectivity service, despite recently assuring competition authorities that no technical barriers existed for customers wanting to operate across multiple clouds. The cloud giants say they've built a tool "to transform how cloud service providers connect with …
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Wednesday 3rd December 2025 16:00 GMT mrdavidsanders
You've always been able to hand-roll transit to any old set of cloud providers at a network level. The (still prevalent) issue is the amount it costs to egress data from any of them. So, though it might be technically possible, it's still not commercially feasible for any system that has cross-cloud data requirements at scale. Once GCP/Azure/AWS start allowing customers to combine native services with non-native services without charging extortionate egress fees then multi-cloud might actually make vague sense.
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