Azure Multicloud Interconnect: Microsoft Links AWS
Microsoft published a post on its own Azure blog titled "Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS", written by Narayan Annamalai, VP and Head of Products, Azure Networking Services, dated August 31, 2026. Everything below comes from it.
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Microsoft and AWS are connecting their clouds directly. Microsoft announced Azure Multicloud Interconnect on August thirty first.
Microsoft and AWS say customers can establish private connectivity between the two clouds using Azure Multicloud Interconnect and AWS Interconnect multicloud.
Microsoft says connecting the clouds privately once required manual coordination across providers, and could take weeks or months.
Microsoft says speeds reach up to one hundred gigabits per second at general availability, and capacity can expand as demand increases.
Microsoft says AI training and inference need data across environments, and connectivity extends to Azure Private Link for a private path between clouds.
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- Today, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are taking an important step toward simplifying that experience.(Microsoft's official announcement, Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS, published August 31, 2026)
- 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.(Microsoft's official announcement, Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS, published August 31, 2026)
- Establishing private connectivity often requires customers to manually stitch together services, coordinate provisioning across providers, manage multiple operational processes, and navigate fragmented support experiences.(Microsoft's official announcement, Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS, published August 31, 2026)
- What should be a straightforward connectivity decision can take weeks or months to implement and manage.(Microsoft's official announcement, Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS, published August 31, 2026)
- Customers can deploy connectivity at speeds up to 100 Gbps from day one at general availability, helping meet the needs of high-bandwidth applications while providing the foundation for future growth.(Microsoft's official announcement, Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS, published August 31, 2026)
- As demand increases, capacity can expand dynamically, enabling organizations to scale without disrupting operations or redesigning their network architecture.(Microsoft's official announcement, Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS, published August 31, 2026)
- Azure Multicloud Interconnect is designed to support these evolving requirements with high-capacity private connectivity that extends to Azure Private Link, providing an end-to-end private path between the clouds.(Microsoft's official announcement, Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS, published August 31, 2026)