Amazon and Google’s new cloud link could make it easier to handle outages

Google and Amazon Web Services They cooperate To provide a link between their cloud services, e.g I mentioned it earlier before Reuters. Using this tool, businesses can establish a private connection between AWS and Google Cloud within “minutes,” giving online businesses a potential safety net if either provider experiences an outage.

Although the tool is positioned as a way for customers to easily access services from multiple cloud providers, Google says it comes Through “a proactive monitoring system that detects malfunctions and reacts to them before customers suffer their consequences.” It also provides a coordinated maintenance system designed to “avoid interferences” that could affect service.

In October, AWS experienced a major outage that took out a wide range of services, including… fortniteAlexa and Snapchat. both of them Microsoft Azure and Cloudflare suffered Outages in the coming weeks Raising concerns about risks Than relying on only a few major Internet infrastructure providers. AWS plans to roll out a link to Microsoft Azure next year.

As noted in Google’s blog post, companies trying to connect to cloud providers will have to “manually set up complex network components, including physical connections and equipment” in a process that could take weeks or months. Now, cloud providers say companies can quickly establish a connection between cloud providers using a cloud console or application programming interface (API).