AT&T and AWS Collaborate on Resilient, Scalable Last Mile Connectivity for Business-Grade AI Workloads

AT&T announced a preview of AWS Interconnect – last mile, a connectivity offering delivered in collaboration with Amazon Web Services 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Source: AT&T media announcement