Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud are teaming up on a multicloud networking solution.

As per a blog post written by Google's VP/GM of cloud networking, Rob Enns, and AWS' VP of network services, Robert Kennedy, the two aim to help create a "more open" cloud environment wherein Google and AWS can connect with one another in a "simplified manner."

The joint solution uses AWS Interconnect - multicloud and Google Cloud's Cross Cloud Interconnect, as well as an open specification for network interoperability between Google Cloud and AWS.

According to Kennedy and Enns, customers previously seeking to connect AWS and Google Cloud would have needed to set up "complex networking components," including physical connections and equipment. This process could take weeks or months to complete. The new solution means that customers can provision bandwidth on demand and "establish connectivity in minutes."

“This collaboration between AWS and Google Cloud represents a fundamental shift in multicloud connectivity," said AWS' Kennedy. "By defining and publishing a standard that removes the complexity of any physical components for customers, with high availability and security fused into that standard, customers no longer need to worry about any heavy lifting to create their desired connectivity. When they need multicloud connectivity, it's ready to activate in minutes with a simple point and click.”

“We are excited about this collaboration, which enables our customers to move their data and applications between clouds with simplified global connectivity and enhanced operational effectiveness. Today's announcement further delivers on Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Network solution focused on delivering an open and unified multicloud experience for customers,” Google Cloud's Enns.

Multicloud offerings are seeing growing popularity, with Oracle having led the way with its Oracle Database@ offerings that are offered with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. That offering saw Oracle hardware actually deployed in partner data centers.

The new multicloud offering from AWS and Google Cloud does not involve deploying servers and compute capacity within one another's data centers; instead, AWS has been integrated into the Google Cross Cloud Network architecture, and therefore "abstracting the complexity of physical connectivity, network addressing, and routing policies."

Both AWS and Google Cloud will be continuously monitoring the network to detect and resolve any issues, with MACsec encryption used between the Edge routers.