Imagine a world without egress fees or cloud software license disparities The UK's competition regulator is drafting remedies that could have big implications for Microsoft and AWS, should behavior that prevents or restricts customers from switching and using multi-clouds be identified. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) last week confirmed it is to investigate the health of the domestic …
There would be a point if such matters could be resolved in weeks.
The behaviour of the large cloud providers is blatantly anticompetitive. Why is there a need to spend several years "investigating" it? By the time remedies come into force, the lesser cloud providers will have been forced out of business. And Microsoft and co. will be onto the next antisocial prank, which will take another 5 years or so to resolve.
And how come there are no gaol sentences for such behaviour?
I'm not sure this is anything about "lesser cloud providers". As far as I can see, these investigations are purely looking at putting the big three cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft) onto a level setting (i.e.g making sure Microsoft don't offer cheaper licences and services on their own cloud, and Amazon can't lock people of moving from Amazon to Microsoft and Google using egress fees).
I don't even see any benefit for the smaller cloud providers, who would like to expand beyond their existing focus area (such as Oracle, or Backblaze) let alone the small, regional providers.
it's easy if you try............ no big vendor lock in........... or costs that make you cry..........
Oh hang on, I don't need to imagine it, I already live in it, you just need to learn how to install and configure your own Linux servers.
On the other hand, network traffic does cost and consumer of the service will pay for this in one way or another. I'd rather have the actual consumer paying than all of us chipping in to secure "free seevice". As much as iinternet access and cloud services are considered essential, I'd argue that they are not (maybe for hipsters).
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