> Technical restrictions on interoperability. These are imposed by the leading firms that prevent some of their services working effectively with services from other providers. This means customers need to put additional effort into reconfiguring their data and applications to work across different clouds.
I'm not sure what they mean by this, anyone care to speculate?
I'd guess that migrating from any of the local cloud DB variations (Aurora say) is unduly hard once you've migrated to it. But that's just a guess. It is certainly a PITA to migrate, I know that for sure.
Cloud providers will always make their in-house offerings more attractive and easier to use compared to other (open standards) solutions. That's how you get locked in.
I agree with that, but given that a lot of the DBs on AWS and Azure are proprietary software (eg Cosmos and DDB) I'm not sure what ofcom proposes doing about that.
They don’t propose to do anything. They don’t even say that this feature in particular is illegal.
They merely say that after doing a market study, they noticed that: egress fees are significant, technical barriers to interoperability are in place and the discount structure based on committed spending is suspicious. From their point of view, that warrants an actual full investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority.
I'm not sure what they mean by this, anyone care to speculate?