Microsoft and Amazon are hurting cloud competition, UK regulator finds
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/uk-cma-cloud-ruling-microsoft-amazon.html
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Microsoft and Amazon are hurting cloud competition, UK regulator finds
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/uk-cma-cloud-ruling-microsoft-amazon.html
Posted by F0urLeafCl0ver
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The UK regulator no doubt saves this report on AWS
> AWS secures £894m in cloud spend across three contracts with UK government on same day
Amazon Web Services’ hold on the UK public sector continues to tighten, following the revelation that on a single day in late 2023 it clinched contracts worth £894m with three central government departments
Buying any software creates a “lock-in” effect. Some of us call it interoperability.
Having recently been involved in a move from Azure to AWS I’d say it was a lot less painful than migrating to another finance or HR solution.
Good, reliable infrastructure proves to be successful, who knew?
For medium to large size businesses there is no other options that are as reliable as the MS and AWS platforms.
The hyper scalers with their global coverage and huge subsidy to customers, does present a massive problem for new entries to the market but provides such a game changing facility that allows their customers in other industries to scale from nothing to Netflix in mere hours it’s such a strong enabler for business in the UK that we would be foolish to take them on in the name of competition.
There is a strong case for a European owned counterpart to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, but this is more over data sovereignty than direct competition. To build a European hyper scaler is a huge undertaking and if we actually wanted to do it at speed it wouldn’t be a purely capitalist endeavour.
Not sure what they mean by lock in, once you have all your systems in any data centre, you don’t want to have to shut them all down and move them. That’s not unique to Cloud solutions, also I don’t see anyone being forced to go to the cloud.
As usual, the goverment is poking one of the few growth sectors we have for no reason
I personally blame the EU and their regulations making it easier to move between cloud platforms! How dare the EU do that! Don’t they know regulation is bad! /s
Who would’ve guessed that two of the biggest companies on the planet could have a stranglehold on the industry they specialise in?
Funny how they can be mad when AWS and Azure are excellent products because of almost two decades of continued development of the service
Meanwhile no issue with Sage being literally the only allowed finance and payroll product that is mainstream – and it’s a crock of shit