UK raises cloud competition concerns, singles out Microsoft and Amazon

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’s computing unit AWS is in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in the expansion of its data center business in the country as part of the tech giant’s effort to boost its cloud offer in Europe, four people familiar with the matter said.

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LONDON — Britain’s antitrust watchdog on Tuesday raised concerns over competition in the multi-billion-pound cloud computing market and singled out

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as the dominant players.

An independent Competition and Markets Authority inquiry group provisionally recommended that the regulator considers investigating

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Web Services (AWS) and

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’s Azure cloud unit under new digital markets legislation.

In a statement, the CMA said it estimates the cloud services market was worth £9 billion ($11.18 billion) in 2023 — a figure growing over 30% year-on-year.

The CMA said that, currently, businesses face a limited choice of providers when it comes to cloud services.

The regulator called AWS and

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“the two large providers of cloud services, each with a share of up to 40% of *** customer spend on cloud services.”

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was the third-biggest provider “with a much smaller share.”

Previously, the CMA said it was concerned by several elements of the cloud market that could pose competition issues, including so-called “egress” fees on transfers of data from one cloud to another, licensing fees, volume discounts, and interoperability issues that make it harder to switch vendor.

The CMA probe traces its history back to 2022, when U.K. telecoms regulator Ofcom kicked off a market study examining the dominance of cloud giants

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. Ofcom subsequently referred its cloud review to the CMA to address competition issues in the market.

Cloud infrastructure services is a market dominated by U.S. technology giants 

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is the largest player, offering cloud services via its

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Web Services (AWS) arm.

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is the second-largest, selling cloud products under its

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Azure unit.

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