The UK cloud market doesn’t have to be this way – UKTN
The CMA’s cloud investigation drags slowly on. It’s such a big and complex topic that the regulator has given itself up to four more months to get it finished.
The submissions made in response to the cloud enquiry are equally wide ranging and complex, including those from the chief protagonists of the investigation, AWS and Microsoft.
As an ex-employee of the defunct UKCloud, briefly the UK’s most successful home-grown cloud hosting company, the cloud-world described by AWS and Microsoft in these responses is one-sided, revolving around them. Small cloud and technology providers in their orbit are the “eco-system”, not the competition.
Nothing to See Here
The key takeaway from some of Microsoft’s submissions appears to be that anti-competitive practices really don’t matter if you are rich enough and powerful enough to bear them. Take that, AWS and Google!…
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