Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings

Google thinks Microsoft's software licensing is impeding customer choice; Microsoft says AWS has "first mover" advantage; AWS also picks on Microsoft's licensing – but all are against remedies being applied to the cloud market that might impact themselves. This is what can be gleaned from reading the summaries of the hearings …

[Pascal Monett]

Regulate them

If they all disagree with the measures, then that means the measures are good for the consumer.

[mark l 2]

"Microsoft questions how other providers would be able to validate a license that a customer wants to import under bring-your-own-license (BYOL) and confirm that one was not still being used by that customer elsewhere.."

Well how do MS do it? Cos the other cloud providers could do it the same way if Microsoft gave them access to the tools.

[IGotOut]

Egress fees are not on the consumers list of requirements...

...then clearly it's no big deal to scrap them if they are so trivial and mundane.

[Cliffwilliams44]

Google needs to get their facts right!

"Licensing practices have been much picked over already, and basically refer to Redmond allowing customers to reuse licenses for its software products if they are run on its own Azure cloud, but requiring them to purchase a separate license for use on a rival cloud."

This statement is factually untrue! While you may not be able to bring your perpetual (boxed) licenses into the cloud (because Microsoft requires Software Assurance in any virtual environment) you certainly can bring your EA licenses with you into AWS! This can be particularly advantageous with products like MS SQL server.