Google and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to offer a link between their cloud services, as reported earlier by Reuters. With this tool, companies can establish a private connection between AWS and Google Cloud within “minutes,” giving online businesses a possible safety net if either of the providers experiences an outage.
Though the tool is positioned as a way for customers to easily gain access to services from multiple cloud providers, Google says it comes with a “proactive monitoring system that detects and reacts to failures before customers suffer from their consequences.” It also offers a coordinated maintenance system designed to “avoid overlaps” that could impact service.
In October, AWS experienced a major outage that took down a swath of services, including Fortnite, Alexa, and Snapchat. Both Microsoft Azure and Cloudflare suffered outages in the following weeks, raising concerns about the risks of relying on just a handful of major internet infrastructure…
https://www.theverge.com/news/835077/google-cloud-aws-multicloud-link-backup
