AWS Interconnect Reaches General Availability with Managed Multicloud and Last-Mile Connectivity (opens in new tab)

AWS Interconnect reached general availability, offering managed private Layer 3 connections to Google Cloud and a last-mile capability via Lumen. Azure and OCI support is planned for later in 2026. AWS published the underlying specification on GitHub under Apache 2.0, which Forrester analysts read as a play to set a de facto standard for multicloud connectivity. By Steef-Jan Wiggers