AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier

AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps multicloud Interconnect, making it easier to privately connect your workloads on AWS and other public clouds.

Customers have been adopting multicloud strategies while migrating more applications to the cloud. With AWS Interconnect - multicloud, AWS simplified the way cloud services providers (CSPs) offer managed, highly-resilient, private connectivity for customers. The specification that powers Interconnect is open and already adopted by Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (currently in Public Preview), with Microsoft Azure coming later in 2026.

Today we are making it easier for customers to evaluate, test, and operate workloads between AWS and another CSP. The new Free Tier Interconnect gives customers a fully managed, 500 Mbps Interconnect to another CSP at no charge on the AWS side, with the same network path, facility, and device resiliency as our paid offering. The other CSP determines their pricing and charges independently of AWS for their side of the infrastructure. Please review the other CSP's pricing before creating your Interconnect.

With a 500 Mbps Interconnect, you can transfer approximately 160 TB of data per month, enough to support significant multicloud workloads, data replication, or hybrid application architectures without incurring AWS Interconnect charges. To help customers monitor their network health and performance across clouds, each Free Tier multicloud Interconnect includes an Amazon CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor at no extra cost.

The Free Tier is limited to one local (Tier 1) Interconnect per customer, per AWS Region to each CSP that is Generally Available with AWS and is subject to the AWS Service Terms.

To get started, use the AWS Direct Connect Console and select AWS Interconnect from the navigation menu. To learn more, visit the AWS Interconnect User Guide.