Four people familiar with this issue said that the Amazon Aws computing unit is holding talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in expanding the country’s data center business as part of the technology giant’s efforts to enhance its cloud show in Europe.
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LONDON-The anti-monopoly in Britain on Tuesday raised concerns about the competition in the billion-pound cloud computing market and placed from Microsoft and Amazon as dominant players.
The independent investigation group for competition and markets temporarily recommended that the regulatory authority consider the Amazon Web Services services (AWS) and the Microsoft Azure Cloud unit under the legislation of new digital markets.
In a statement, CMA said it was estimated that the cloud services market was worth 9 billion pounds (11.18 billion dollars) in 2023-a number that grows more than 30 % on an annual basis. CMA male Currently, companies face a limited choice of service providers when it comes to cloud services.
The organizer called AWS and Microsoft “major cloud services providers, each with a share of 40 % of UK customers on cloud services.”
It is worth noting that Google was the third largest provider “with a much smaller share”.
“Unjustified”
Rima Aalii, deputy president of the company and deputy general advisor for the Microsoft Competition Group, said, via e -mail, that the CMA Inquiry Group report “should focus on preparing the way for the future The last century.
“The cloud computing market has never been dynamic and competitive, as it attracts billions of dollars in investments, new expatriates and fast innovation. What could be better for companies and government in the United Kingdom?” Aleili added.
A spokesman for AWS said that the recommended intervention of CMA is “unjustified”, adding that “the evidence shows that the IT industry industry is very competitive.”
AWS spokesman added: “Cloud computing has reduced the costs of companies in the United Kingdom through demand services and payment rates upon transportation, selecting the expanded product, increasing competition and innovation.”
The Amazon CMA section urged “carefully thinking about how organizational intervention in other areas of stifling innovation and ultimately harm to customers in the UK.”
The cloud market in focus
Previously, CMA said she was concerned about many of the cloud market elements that could constitute competition problems, including the so -called “exit” fees to transfer data from one cloud to another, license fees, size discounts, and inter -operating issues that It is made difficult to replace the seller.
The CMA probe tracks its history to 2022, when the UK’s communications regulator The study of the market that examines the dominance of the cloud giants, the Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Offcom later indicated its cloud review of CMA to address competition issues in the market.
Cloud infrastructure services are a market dominated by American technology giants Amazon and Microsoft. Amazon is the largest player, providing cloud services across the Amazon Web Services (AWS) arm. Microsoft is the second largest cloud products that it sells under the Microsoft Azure unit.
