NEW YORK, Dec 1: Amazon and Google on Sunday unveiled a jointly developed multicloud networking service aimed at meeting growing demand for reliable connectivity, the companies said in a statement, as even brief internet disruptions increasingly risk major outages.

The new service will allow customers to set up private, high-speed links between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud platforms in minutes rather than weeks, the companies said.

The initiative comes just over a month after an AWS outage on October 20 disrupted thousands of websites worldwide, temporarily knocking offline popular apps, including Snapchat and Reddit. The outage is estimated to have cost U.S. companies between $500 million and $650 million, according to analytics firm Parametrix.

The offering combines AWS Interconnect–multicloud with Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect to improve network interoperability, the companies said.

“This collaboration between AWS and Google Cloud represents a fundamental shift in multicloud connectivity,” said Robert Kennedy, vice president of network services at AWS.

Rob Enns, vice president and general manager of cloud networking at Google Cloud, said the joint network is designed to make it easier for customers to move data and applications between clouds. Salesforce is among the early adopters of the service, Google Cloud said.

AWS, the world’s largest cloud provider, delivers computing power, data storage, and other digital services to companies, governments, and individuals, followed by Microsoft’s Azure and Google Cloud.

Tech giants, including Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon, are investing billions in infrastructure to handle surging internet traffic and growing demands for artificial intelligence, which require massive computing power.

Amazon’s cloud business posted robust growth in the third quarter, generating $33 billion in revenue—more than double Google Cloud’s $15.16 billion, according to the companies’ financial results.