United Kingdom, Dec. 2 -- Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are teaming up on a new multicloud networking service designed to make it dramatically easier for companies to move data and apps between the two rival platforms.

The jointly engineered system links AWS Interconnect - multicloud with Google Cloud's Cross-Cloud Interconnect, letting customers spin up private, high-speed links between the two clouds in minutes instead of the weeks or months it once took.

It's the first tangible product of a broader collaboration to standardise multicloud networking, an area where customers have long been forced to cobble together their own infrastructure across vendors, physical circuits, and external integrators.

The companies have also publ...