The four who are familiar with the matter say that Amazon’s computer AWS is talking to Italy to expand the country’s data center business, which is part of the technical giant’s efforts to raise its price in Europe.
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The London-British Anti-Torais watching dogs caused concerns about the billions of pounds of cloud computing market competition on Tuesday, and picked Microsoft and Amazon out of the leaders.
The independent competition and marketing bureau investigation team temporarily suggested that regulatory agencies consider investigating Amazon Network Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Cloud Units under the new digital market legislation.
CMA stated in a statement that it is estimated that the cloud service market was worth 9 billion pounds ($ 11.8 billion) in 2023, and this number increased by 30 % year -on -year. CMA Well -known At present, enterprises are facing limited providers in cloud services.
The regulatory agency is called AWS and Microsoft. “Two large providers of cloud services, each provider has up to 40 % of British customers in cloud services.”
It is worth noting that it adds that Google is the third largest provider “a much smaller share.”
“No guarantee”
Rima Alaily, deputy lawyer of Microsoft Company and Deputy Lawyer Group of Competition Group, said through emails that the draft report of the CMA query team “focuses on paving the future of the British AI -driven future.”
“The cloud computing market has never been so active and competitive, attracting billions of dollars of investment, new participants and fast innovation. What is better for British companies and governments?” Alaily added.
AWS spokesman said that the CMA’s proposed intervention measures were “not guaranteed” and added: “Evidence shows that the IT service industry has high competitiveness.”
AWS spokesman added: “Cloud computing reduces the on -demand service of British companies and your paid pricing, expand product selection, and increase the cost of competition and innovation.”
The Amazon branch urged the CMA to “carefully consider how regulatory intervention in other fields will kill innovation and ultimately damage British customers.”
Cloud market focus
In the past, CMA said that several elements in the cloud market may constitute a competitive problem, including the so -called “export” cost, license, quantity discount and interoperability issues from one cloud to another, and make switching supply It is even harder to quotient.
The CMA detection can be traced back to its history, and it can be traced back to 2022. Starting market research Study the dominant position of the cloud giant Amazon,,,,, Microsoft and GoogleEssence OFCOM subsequently Refer the cloud comments to CMA Solve competition in the market.
The cloud infrastructure service is a market led by American technology giants Amazon and Microsoft. Amazon is the largest player and provides cloud services through its Amazon Web Services (AWS) department. Microsoft is the second largest, selling cloud products under its Microsoft Azure unit.
