Comms regulator says UK cloud market should be referred to competition watchdog The cloud infrastructure market should be referred to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for investigation, says telecoms regulator Ofcom in a freshly filed interim report. In the report, Ofcom says there are clear indications the local cloud infrastructure market isn't working as well as it should, and is …
Many cloud users are very naive - notably those who aspire to multi-cloud strategies. It's not very hard, but it is fast moving and innovative. So, if you want longevity for a solution, you need to work to ensure it. If you want to understand the costs, then measure them (qv on-prem approaches, where the budget is just set, top down and actual spend is hidden for years).
Seems perfectly clear to me :o
@MTimC: “Many cloud users are very naive - notably those who aspire to multi-cloud strategies. It's not very hard, but it is fast moving and innovative. So, if you want longevity for a solution, you need to work to ensure it. If you want to understand the costs, then measure them (qv on-prem approaches, where the budget is just set, top down and actual spend is hidden for years).”
"licensing practices" more like "Mafia style vendor lock-in licensing practices".
However, to be fair, lock-in strategies are used by all other big companies and in most other industries too, such as to kill off smaller competition in their start-up region somewhere by dropping prices in their region only. This kind of stuff goes on a lot, I wish the legal system would deal with it, but there are so many pros and cons, so give up.
"Egress fees, as Reg readers know, are a well-known bugbear of online services, where the host charges a customer to transfer their data out to somewhere else. Ofcom asserts that the big cloud operators charge significantly more than other providers, and this may discourage customers from using services from more than one cloud provider as well as making it more costly to switch."
Many myths about the Cloud get banded about, and this is one of them. Getting all your data out of AWS/Azure isnt expensive.
If you have a lot of data in the Cloud, you don't want to spend months transferring it out over a network, if that's even possible - You will want a physical device. Azure has Azure Data Box, priced at $250 for 100TB of data. AWS has Snowball Edge with 200TB for $300. It doesn't seem unreasonable pricing IMO.
Ofcom should fuck-off and do its own job.
How about aspire for the stars and do it merely adequately for a Change ??
The war-profiteering on mobile, landline and broadband and the +3.9% that has allowed to become entrenched would be a great suggested place to start.
A second would be ripping off elderly folks with expiring deals and WHa Ming up their direct debits towards and over £100/m in some cases.
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