2 Jun 2025

The Benefits of Cloud-to-Cloud Connectivity for Enterprises

Why Cloud-to-Cloud Connectivity Is a Game-Changer for Enterprises

As enterprises continue to embrace digital transformation, the shift to cloud infrastructure is accelerating at pace. Today, most organisations operate in a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environment, relying on more than one cloud service provider to host applications, store data, and run business-critical workloads. However, this shift introduces a new challenge: ensuring seamless, secure, and high-performance connectivity between disparate cloud environments.

Cloud-to-cloud connectivity provides a direct, private link between cloud platforms, bypassing the public internet, to ensure greater speed, reliability, and security. For enterprises looking to improve performance, reduce costs, and enhance data governance, it is quickly becoming a strategic imperative.

What Is Cloud-to-Cloud Connectivity?

Cloud-to-cloud connectivity refers to the ability to establish direct, dedicated connections between two or more cloud service providers, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Oracle Cloud. Instead of routing data through the public internet which can introduce latency, security risks, and inconsistent performance, this model ensures private, high-speed data transfer paths across cloud environments.

This is especially beneficial for enterprises that run workloads across multiple cloud providers, require rapid data synchronisation, or rely on distributed applications that need consistent uptime and performance.

The Core Benefits for Enterprises

Improved Performance and Latency

Traditional internet-based connections can suffer from congestion and variable routing paths, resulting in unpredictable latency. Cloud-to-cloud connectivity provides direct, low-latency routes between cloud environments, ensuring consistently high performance for latency-sensitive applications.

Enhanced Security and Compliance

Data transmitted over the public internet is more vulnerable to interception and cyberattacks. Cloud-to-cloud connections reduce this risk by enabling data to travel through private, encrypted links. This also supports compliance with stringent data sovereignty and privacy regulations, such as GDPR, by offering better control over data flows.

Increased Agility and Scalability

As enterprises grow and expand into new markets or regions, the need for agile IT infrastructure becomes critical. Cloud-to-cloud connectivity allows organisations to quickly spin up new services across clouds and regions without complex reconfigurations or latency penalties, enabling faster innovation.

Cost Optimisation

Public cloud providers often charge for data egress, particularly when transferring data between different regions or external networks. With a cloud-to-cloud model, enterprises can significantly reduce these costs by routing data through private, direct pathways, avoiding unnecessary traffic over the public internet.

Common Enterprise Use Cases

  • Financial Services: Real-time data replication between trading platforms hosted in different clouds, ensuring fast and secure access to market data.

  • Media & Entertainment: High-throughput content delivery and post-production workflows that require low-latency transfers between editing and distribution platforms.

  • Global Enterprises: Seamless collaboration and application performance across global teams using cloud-native tools hosted on various platforms.

Why Traditional Connectivity Falls Short

Legacy connectivity solutions like VPNs or MPLS networks are not designed to meet the high-speed, low-latency network demands of modern cloud environments. These methods often rely on the public internet or rigid architectures that limit scalability and introduce unnecessary complexity.

Without direct cloud-to-cloud connectivity, enterprises risk encountering latency spikes, packet loss, and downtime. This in turn affects user experience and operational efficiency.

How BSO Delivers Secure, Low-Latency Cloud-to-Cloud Connectivity

BSO offers a global network specifically engineered for low-latency, high-performance connectivity between the world’s leading cloud platforms. Our infrastructure spans 240+ points of presence (PoPs) across key financial and digital hubs, enabling direct interconnection between AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, and more.

With BSO, enterprises benefit from:

  • Guaranteed SLAs and consistent performance

  • Private, encrypted connections

  • Flexible, scalable bandwidth options

  • Expertise in managing mission-critical connectivity solutions

By choosing BSO, organisations can future-proof their infrastructure with cloud connectivity that delivers on both performance and resilience.

Key Considerations When Choosing a Cloud Connectivity Partner

When evaluating a cloud connectivity provider, enterprises should consider:

  • Geographic Coverage: Can they offer low-latency routes across your key cloud regions?

  • Cloud Interoperability: Do they support seamless integration with your chosen cloud vendors?

  • Network Resilience: Is the provider’s infrastructure redundant, secure, and optimised for uptime?

  • Support & SLAs: What service-level guarantees and customer support options are available?

Final Thoughts: Future-Proofing Enterprise Infrastructure

Cloud-to-cloud connectivity is a necessity for enterprises navigating complex digital ecosystems. As multi-cloud and hybrid strategies become the norm, the ability to connect cloud platforms seamlessly will define business agility, resilience, and success.

With BSO, enterprises gain a trusted partner with the global infrastructure, technical expertise, and industry knowledge to deliver cloud connectivity that powers innovation at scale.

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Ready to transform your enterprise cloud strategy? Explore BSO’s cloud connectivity solutions or speak to our team to discover how we can help you build a faster, smarter, and more secure cloud ecosystem.

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ABOUT BSO

The company was founded in 2004 and serves the world’s largest financial institutions. BSO is a global pioneering infrastructure and connectivity provider, helping over 600 data-intensive businesses across diverse markets, including financial services, technology, energy, e-commerce, media and others. BSO owns and provides mission-critical infrastructure, including network connectivity, cloud solutions, managed services and hosting, that are specific and dedicated to each customer served.

The company’s network comprises 240+ PoPs across 33 markets, 50+ cloud on-ramps, is integrated with all major public cloud providers and connects to 75+ on-net internet exchanges and 30+ stock exchanges. The team of experts works closely with customers in order to create solutions that meet the detailed and specific needs of their business, providing the latency, resilience and security they need regardless of location.

BSO is headquartered in Ireland, and has 11 offices across the globe, including London, New York, Paris, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Access our website and find out more information: www.bso.co