In a Reversal, AWS Makes it Easier For AI Customers to Use Rival Clouds

Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are arch-rivals in the cloud computing market, so it was surprising to hear them announce Monday that they’re working to make it easier for their joint customers to move data and develop applications that run on both clouds. 

Tech companies are constantly issuing announcements about working together, but this one is different. For years, AWS executives dismissed the trend of companies using multiple cloud providers and insisted customers could get everything they needed on AWS. In a modest concession five years ago, AWS released a tool that helped its customers manage computing jobs running on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.