With Cross-Cloud Interconnect, Google makes it possible to easily connect the Google Cloud to another public cloud provider.

Google introduces Cross-Cloud Interconnect. This enables customers to connect their Google Cloud environment to cloud environments from other public cloud providers reliably and with high bandwidth.

Google provides customers with a dedicated physical connection between its own network and that of another provider such as Microsoft Azure or AWS. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Alibaba Cloud are now also supported. Cross-cloud interconnect is available in two flavors: 10 Gbps or 100 Gbps.

More than a mouse click

To use the service, you must first purchase primary and redundant ports from Google and then from the third-party cloud provider. It then provides the data that you need to pass to Google to effectively establish a connection. Finally, Google will tell you when the connection is ready. To use them, you need to configure them on Google and the third party.

With the cross-cloud interconnect, you can be more flexible with data and applications and use a combination of providers. A multicloud environment also offers great added value when it comes to redundancy. Google claims that Cross-Cloud Interconnect simplifies the connection between two providers.

Good connection, complex management

The new service shows that Google takes multicloud seriously. Interestingly, even in the name of flexibility, a hyperscaler offers options to connect to other cloud environments. This puts Google a little overshadowed by parties like Nutanix, which have focused heavily on the simplicity and management of hybrid multicloud environments.

On the other hand, Google only announces a connection here. To use this effectively, you are allowed to dive into the consoles of all the providers involved. In other words: There is no question of end-to-end management without external providers.