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Original from ITmedia.co.jp: [ITmedia News] AWS、他クラウドと500Mbpsまでの接続が無料に 「AWS Interconnect - multicloud」に無料枠が登場
AWS offers free 500Mbps connections to other clouds with new "AWS Interconnect - multicloud" free tier.
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