For years we’ve circled around the same debate:
Is it better to build multicloud architectures using agnostic technologies, or to fully embrace a single provider and optimize everything around it?
The argument is familiar.
On one side, you have cost efficiency and the power of deeply integrated cloud services.
On the other, you have resilience—especially when outages like the well-known AWS Virginia incidents can ripple across a massive portion of the internet.
Every re:Invent, my attention usually gravitates toward new features: better serverless capabilities, smarter managed services, or breakthrough technologies that unlock new design patterns.
But this year, the announcement that stood out the most wasn’t a new product.
It was the collaboration between AWS and Google Cloud to simplify multicloud networking.
At a high level, it looks like a straightforward agreement: improve private connectivity between the two clouds, reduce complexity, and remove some historical pain points that made multicloud networking feel like a chore. Anyone who has tried to stitch AWS ↔ Google Cloud manually knows exactly what that pain feels like.
However, the implications run deeper.
This partnership opens the door to a possible future where cloud systems become increasingly agnostic, where architectural decisions are driven by capabilities—not by the limitations of network plumbing between providers.
Yet there’s another way to read this move:
Maybe this isn’t the birth of an open, collaborative multicloud era, but rather a strategic patch designed to satisfy current multicloud customers while strengthening a two-provider alliance.
If that’s the case, we might be watching the formation of a new “default” recipe in enterprise architectures:
AWS + Google Cloud as the dominant multicloud pair, quietly pushing other clouds to the periphery.
Whether this collaboration becomes a turning point in cloud interoperability or simply a convenient handshake between two giants remains to be seen.
What is certain is that the market has been demanding simpler, more stable, and less painful multicloud experiences—and this announcement suggests that the providers have finally started listening.
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