After outages that brought down half the internet, Google and Amazon join hands: Here’s what it means

In a move signaling a shift toward greater cooperation in the competitive cloud market, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud introduced a jointly developed multicloud networking service on Sunday. The initiative aims to bolster internet reliability and drastically reduce the time required to connect disparate computing platforms. The collaboration comes as the tech industry faces increasing pressure to prevent costly service disruptions. The new offering arrives just over a month after a massive AWS outage on October 20 knocked major applications — including Snapchat and Reddit—offline. That single event is estimated to cost U.S. companies between $500 million and $650 million in losses, according to analytics firm Parametrix.