Provenance Record

Well-structured News-category piece (845 words) with clear Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know / Analysis sections. Neutral, factual tone throughout; no sensationalism. Correctly frames the Azure preview as the follow-through on commitments AWS made in its April GA announcement, and accurately notes OCI has separately reached GA since then.

All 3 sources fetched successfully (200 OK, no suspicious_patterns) and read from the gzipped snapshots in sources/2026-09/aws-interconnect-adds-microsoft-azure-in-public-preview-extending-its-multicloud-networking-spec-to-a-third-hyperscaler/: (1) source-0.html.gz (AWS News Blog, 'AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Microsoft Azure in preview', posted Aug 31, 2026) — confirms the Aug 31 preview launch, the four listed regions (US East N. Virginia, US West N. California, Asia Pacific Sydney, Europe Frankfurt), Console/CLI/API provisioning, and the 'first purpose-built product of its kind' quote verbatim. However, the article's quoted line 'consistent connectivity experiences across Microsoft Azure (Preview), OCI (Generally Available), and Google Cloud (Generally Available)' attributed to this post as a direct quote does NOT match the source verbatim — the actual sentence reads 'This allows AWS to provide a consistent, simple experience to our customers on Microsoft Azure (Preview), OCI (Generally Available), and Google Cloud (Generally Available).' The parenthetical GA/Preview status labels are accurate, but the surrounding phrase is a paraphrase dressed as a direct quote. (2) source-1.html.gz (The Register, 'Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed', published Tue 1 Sep 2026) — confirms 100 Gbps connection speed, the Kennedy quotes verbatim ('Customers told us they wanted a better way...' and 'With AWS Interconnect...scalability at the click of a button'), the Annamalai quote verbatim ('through a simplified experience that abstracts the underlying complexity of multicloud networking'), the regulator-irony claims about AWS's CMA statement and Microsoft's 'fairly specialized situations' statement, and 'AWS Interconnect – multicloud now covers all three major rival platforms: Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.' (3) source-2.html.gz (Microsoft Azure Blog, 'Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS', by Narayan Annamalai, VP and Head of Products Azure Networking Services, Aug 31) — confirms the Kennedy quote is independently carried here too, and the Annamalai 'broader interoperability across hyperscale cloud providers' language. Note: this source states 100 Gbps applies 'from day one at general availability' — a qualifier The Register's report (and consequently the article, which cites Register for this figure) omits. The article's phrasing is faithful to what The Register reported, so this is not a bot-caused misattribution, but it is a minor precision gap worth flagging since the primary source is more specific about the GA/preview distinction.

All specifics (dates, regions, quotes, the OCI-reached-GA claim, the April prior-coverage framing) check out against the source snapshots, with the one exception noted above: the 'consistent connectivity experiences across...' string presented in quotation marks as an AWS quote is a paraphrase, not a verbatim reproduction. This is a single, subordinate-claim-level issue (not in the headline, summary, or lead) that a corrections note can honestly cover.

Substantively solid, well-sourced follow-up story with a legitimate justification for bypassing the topic-collision gate. One direct quote is paraphrased rather than verbatim — a single, subordinate, honestly-correctable issue. APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS: publish with a corrections record documenting the misquote.