Verizon, which is promoting its own new enterprise-class cloud, is now adding connectivity to Amazon Web Services via its Secure Cloud Interconnect service. Up until now, SCI connected Verizon Cloud with Microsoft Azure.

It’s easy to see what [company]Verizon[/company] gets here — a way for customers to move data securely from (and presumably to) [company]Amazon[/company], the world’s largest public cloud. And, presumably, this addition also gives Amazon a bit more of a hybrid cloud story, although I haven’t seen AWS promoting the move. Given HP’s new ownership of Eucalyptus, which offers an AWS API-compatible private cloud, one might assume Amazon might wants to assure customers that their data can be moved securely to and from other clouds.

Per the Verizon statement, SCI enables customers:

 … to easily manage a multi-cloud environment that allows for dynamic bandwidth allocation, application performance throughput, quality of service and usage-based billing.With SCI, Verizon is removing many of…