[Digital Today reporter Chi-gyu Hwang] Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are linking their cloud infrastructure.

SiliconANGLE reported on April 16 local time that the partnership will establish private, high-speed connectivity between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the AWS cloud.

It will provide a secure connection that bypasses the public internet by integrating the specifications of Oracle Interconnect and AWS Interconnect-multicloud.

Joint customers will be able to move data and run applications across the two clouds while reducing latency.

Companies can run applications on OCI while storing data on AWS, or set up the reverse. They can use it in a fully managed environment without manual routing configurations or complex data replication strategies.

Rob Strechay (롭 스트레체이), a principal analyst at theCUBE Research, said, "By removing networking complexity between two large clouds, enterprises can implement multicloud environments and AI architectures much more easily." He added, "The AI future will be a form where data is in one place and models run elsewhere, and the network must not be an obstacle."

Google Cloud launched its Cross-Cloud Interconnect service in May 2023 and added a dedicated connection with AWS last December. Oracle has also already built interconnects with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

Oracle Senior Vice President of product management Nathan Thomas (네이선 토머스) said the announcement extends the companies' cloud collaboration and will help customers modernise applications, integrate data and expand opportunities with generative AI. The connection is expected to begin service later this year in AWS's U.S. East (Virginia) region.