Key Takeaways:
- AT&T and Amazon Web Services are working together to extend 5G and fiber connectivity from business customers and locations directly into AWS environments, creating secure, resilient and reliable premises‑to‑cloud architectures for AI workloads.
- The solution is designed to reduce network complexity and latency while supporting real‑time analytics, machine learning, and agentic AI use cases.
- AT&T is building an AI‑ready network designed to scale performance by continuing ongoing network investment, including the growth of capacities up to 1.6Tbps across key metro and long‑haul routes.
Today, AT&T announced a preview of AWS Interconnect – last mile, a connectivity offering delivered in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that brings AT&T’s fiber and fixed wireless connectivity directly into AWS environments. The preview will be available for customers in 2Q26.
As businesses move artificial intelligence from experimentation to production, connectivity is becoming ever more critical. AWS Interconnect – last mile 5G and fiber connectivity from enterprise locations into the cloud, helping organizations build more predictable, resilient architectures for AI‑driven workloads.
This collaboration continues a long-standing relationship between AT&T and AWS and follows recent news outlining broader efforts to modernize the nation’s connectivity infrastructure by providing high-capacity fiber to AWS data centers, migrate AT&T workloads to AWS cloud capabilities and explore emerging satellite technologies.
Simplifying Premises‑to‑Cloud Connectivity
AWS Interconnect – last mile embeds AT&T‑delivered connectivity directly into AWS workflows, designed to enable customers to provision and manage last‑mile connectivity within the AWS environment and lays the foundation for the use of AI agents to monitor and manage the AI experience from the user to the cloud. This streamlined, self‑managed approach helps enterprises reduce network complexity while maintaining control of their extended enterprise network, allowing businesses to move faster as they scale AI.
High level illustration of the planned AWS Interconnect - last mile architecture, showing how resilient interconnections and AT&T Fiber and fixed wireless access are intended to simplify private connectivity from customer locations into AWS environments.
Engineered for AI‑Driven Workloads
AT&T and AWS are jointly working to ensure AWS Interconnect – last mile supports latency‑sensitive, data‑intensive use cases such as real‑time analytics, machine learning, and agentic AI. The service is designed to deliver highly resilient, metro‑level connectivity that helps enterprises maintain consistent performance. AT&T provides the last‑mile and connectivity linking enterprise locations to AWS, while AWS integrates the service into its cloud platform.
AI does not just need more compute; it needs flatter networks and faster connections,” said Shawn Hakl, SVP & Head of Product, AT&T Business. “By bringing high‑capacity connectivity closer to cloud platforms, integrating the management of the networks directly into the cloud provisioning process and engineering for resiliency at the metro level, AT&T is helping enterprises streamline their networks, improve performance, security, and scale AI with confidence.”
As demand for AI continues to accelerate, enterprises are increasingly looking for connectivity models that offer lower latency, fine grained security control, and tighter integration between their locations and cloud environments. By working together, AT&T and AWS aim to help customers build simple, efficient, and resilient architectures that are ready for the next phase of AI adoption.
We've spent years reimagining how customers compute in the AWS Cloud, and now we're bringing that same thinking to connectivity itself," said Robert Kennedy, vice president, Network Services at AWS. "Together with AT&T, we're extending that transformation all the way to the last mile, giving customers a simpler, more resilient network experience that's built for whatever comes next."
Investing in Network Reliability, Readiness
This collaboration builds on AT&T’s ongoing investments in fiber and wireless network infrastructure to support the growing demands of artificial intelligence and next‑generation applications, including expanded capacity up to 1.6Tbps across key metro, regional and long‑haul routes. These higher‑capacity fiber offerings are designed to support growing AI demand while maintaining reliable performance and minimizing network infrastructure interruption.
Preview and Availability
AT&T is preparing to make the preview of AWS Interconnect – last mile available to qualifying customers in 2Q26 in select areas, with plans to expand availability following the preview phase. This phase will help validate the end‑to‑end customer experience, from ordering and provisioning to ongoing operations, while incorporating customer feedback.
