Ofcom proposes to refer UK cloud market for investigation
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Re: Ofcom proposes to refer UK cloud market for investigation
#2I wonder if the UK situation is worse/better than the rest of Europe here. At least there are Hertzner and OVH, but not sure if they are remotely comparable to AWS et al.
Re: Ofcom proposes to refer UK cloud market for investigation
#3Title could probably end in "by CMA" to indicate competition concerns rather than eg criminal investigations.
Also, this is excellent and way past time. I'd love to see some movement here that would allow some competitors into the market that would be more wholesome than the usual field of american monsters.
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#5I wonder if the UK situation is worse/better than the rest of Europe here. At least there are Hertzner and OVH, but not sure if they are remotely comparable to AWS et al.
They're not really comparable with AWS as a whole. They certainly compare with EC2, but as far as I know neither OVH nor Hetzner have anything comparable to say, IAM. It is the pre-cloud roll-your-own-in-a-dc thing and it isn't the same proposition if you're a business.
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#6Responses to the consultation for investigation are linked here: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/catego...
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#7> Technical restrictions on interoperability. These are imposed by the leading firms that prevent some of their services working effectively with services from other providers. This means customers need to put additional effort into reconfiguring their data and applications to work across different clouds.
I'm not sure what they mean by this, anyone care to speculate?
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#8Just another example that a free market does not always ensure healthy competition and some times intervention is needed to level the playing field.
Re: Ofcom proposes to refer UK cloud market for investigation
#9> Technical restrictions on interoperability. These are imposed by the leading firms that prevent some of their services working effectively with services from other providers. This means customers need to put additional effort into reconfiguring their data and applications to work across different clouds. I'm not sure what they mean by this, anyone care to speculate?
Sounds like a fancy way of saying vendor lock-in
Re: Ofcom proposes to refer UK cloud market for investigation
#10> Technical restrictions on interoperability. These are imposed by the leading firms that prevent some of their services working effectively with services from other providers. This means customers need to put additional effort into reconfiguring their data and applications to work across different clouds. I'm not sure what they mean by this, anyone care to speculate?
I'd guess that migrating from any of the local cloud DB variations (Aurora say) is unduly hard once you've migrated to it. But that's just a guess. It is certainly a PITA to migrate, I know that for sure.