The UK's Competition and Markets Authority is gonna investigate AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, after Ofcom "identified a number of features in the supply of cloud services that make it more difficult for customers to switch and use multiple cloud suppliers". In particular, high egress fees that make getting data out of these platforms super expensive, discounts "which may incentivise customers to use only one cloud provider" and technical barriers that make it tough to switch. The egress fees of AWS have always shit me to no end. If I want to pull data out of an S3 bucket so I can move it elsewhere or retrieve a backup, it's a whopping 14c/GB. I can get international roaming data on my iPhone cheaper than that! God speed to the CMA.
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