Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed

Microsoft has unveiled a service for privately linking Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), overcoming multicloud barriers the providers previously claimed barely existed. The Redmond biz says it is working with AWS on a solution that combines Azure Multicloud Interconnect with AWS Interconnect – multicloud, allowing customers …

[Korev]

Fees?

Do the normal data egress fees apply? If so you could ring up a huge bill by pulling at up to 10GB a second...

[retiredFool]

Re: Fees?

Exactly what I was thinking. It would be like AWS/microsoft standing in front of the big slot payout. Wheels spinning balloons falling and chips flying out of the hopper.

[Paul Herber]

Re: Fees?

Are you worried about how long it would take you to retrieve your porn collection at that speed?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Fees?

I don't have the hours or the money to put my pron in the cloud.

[John Musbach]

Re: Fees?

Hopefully it's legal. I worked for the webhost of usluts.com, the owner said he was moving the images over 1tb!) to aws and then the site closed. Guessing aws reports child porn

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Fees?

As they should. One would hope there is a database of checksums for such things.

[Anonymous Coward]

So basically when they start linking to eachother and cooperating, this is a sign that they've got the market sewn up between themselves and no longer consider eachother as competitors? Interesting...

[DaemonProcess]

About time too

In some citied (e.g. Boston) their zones (DCs) are just a few blocks apart. Makes all the sense in the world when one of them knows that losing an AZ means not all of it can be flipped over to others, or that a bad DNS change borks the whole thing. This is good for customers. Just don't integrate too closely and bring down each other's infra, OK? The AI Skynet is already at large.