If you want to dip a toe into multicloud, AWS has a new offer: a 500 Mbps private, managed link to another provider for free – as long as it is local.
AWS announced the free tier for AWS Interconnect - multicloud (not to be confused with AWS Interconnect - last mile for on-prem links) last week with the promise that there is no catch other than that it is a one-per-customer offer.
The endpoint also has to be in the same region as your AWS service. Beyond that, it comes with "the same network path, facility, and device resiliency as our paid offering".
By AWS's calculations, that will make for a link that can handle 160 TB of data per month if used continuously, "enough to support significant multicloud workloads, data replication, or hybrid application architectures".
