AWS Interconnect multicloud eliminates per-gigabyte transfer fees between AWS and Google Cloud VPCs in favor of flat bandwidth pricing. Azure and Oracle are next. The launch removes the cloud-to-cloud brokerage role that drove Megaport and Equinix Fabric growth.
OpenAI's Azure exclusivity ended on April 27 as Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their partnership: Microsoft stops paying revenue share, retains its 27 percent equity stake, and Azure keeps first-launch rights, while OpenAI gains full multi-cloud distribution including AWS and Google Cloud. The restructuring directly resolves a legal conflict created by OpenAI's $38 billion AWS cloud contract and up to $50 billion Amazon investment, and removes the barrier that prevented enterprise customers from running OpenAI models outside Azure.