UK Watchdog Urges AWS and Microsoft to Address Cloud Service Switching Barriers

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has called on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft to do more to reduce barriers for customers switching between cloud providers and utilizing multi-cloud services. The CMA expressed concerns over data egress fees, interoperability issues, and licensing practices that hinder competition in the UK cloud sector, keeping open the possibility of a full strategic market status investigation.