by Mike Wheatley
Oracle Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. seem to be putting their longstanding rivalry aside in favor of a more pragmatic relationship that acknowledges the reality of today’s multicloud technology environments.
The two technology giants today revealed a plan to establish private, high-speed connectivity between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Joint customers will be able to move data and run applications across them with reduced latency. By establishing a direct connection between Oracle Interconnect and AWS Interconnect-multicloud, the two companies can offer companies a fully managed, enterprise-grade pipeline that effectively transforms their respective cloud platforms into a unified computing environment.
The move reflects the enterprise shift toward “multicloud” infrastructures that make use of dozens of individual cloud platforms and software services. Multicloud is not new, of course, but until recently organizations have struggled to properly integrate different clouds with one another.
Historically, they’ve been forced to build their own connections, and have relied on a messy patchwork of third-party network providers, manual configurations and high-priced physical infrastructure. This has resulted in some major “data gravity” issues, where data effectively becomes trapped in one cloud platform because it’s far too expensive or complex to move it where it’s needed.
