Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud jointly launched a managed multicloud networking service with an open API that promises private, high‑speed links provisioned in minutes, quad‑redundancy across separate interconnect facilities, and MACsec encryption. The product both reduces the months‑long lead time for cross‑cloud private connectivity and invites other providers to adopt a common interop spec.
— If adopted widely, an industry‑led open multicloud fabric will reshape cloud competition, concentration of operational control over critical internet plumbing, and national debates about resilience, data sovereignty, and who sets interoperability standards.
BeauHD
2025.12.02
52% relevant
The piece describes NVLink Fusion as a compute 'fabric' enabling faster inter‑chip and inter‑server communication and mentions AWS offering 'AI Factories' inside customer data centers — a move toward managed, networked AI infrastructure that parallels existing ideas about hyperscalers building out private, interoperable fabrics and lock‑in‑prone connectivity services.
EditorDavid
2025.12.01
100% relevant
Reuters coverage of the joint AWS–Google announcement; motivation tied to the Oct. 20 AWS outage and Parametrix loss estimates; Salesforce named as an early user; technical claims include minutes vs weeks provisioning, quad‑redundancy, and MACsec between edge routers.
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