Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS

As organizations accelerate AI adoption and modernize their digital estates, applications, data, and infrastructure increasingly span multiple cloud environments. Customers are choosing the best platform for each workload, leveraging unique capabilities across providers to drive innovation, resilience, and business agility.

Yet while multicloud strategies have become commonplace, networking between cloud environments remains complex. Establishing private connectivity often requires customers to manually stitch together services, coordinate provisioning across providers, manage multiple operational processes, and navigate fragmented support experiences. What should be a straightforward connectivity decision can take weeks or months to implement and manage.

Today, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are taking an important step toward simplifying that experience.

Microsoft Azure and AWS are excited to collaborate on a multicloud networking solution that uses both AWS Interconnect – multicloud and Azure Multicloud Interconnect for network interoperability, enabling customers to establish a private, high-performance private connectivity between Microsoft Azure and AWS through a streamlined, cloud-native experience.

This collaboration is built using the Open API specifications for network interoperability. Azure Multicloud Interconnect helps remove much of the complexity traditionally associated with multicloud networking. Customers can provision connectivity through an integrated experience while benefiting from enterprise-grade performance, resiliency, security, and operational simplicity.

Simplifying multicloud connectivity

Until now, organizations connecting Azure and AWS environments required careful planning, physical connectivity, routing configuration, provisioning coordination, monitoring, and lifecycle management to assemble and maintain multiple components across providers.