Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit out at the uk competition watchdog for presenting “No Credible Evidence” to Support Its Claims The Public Cloud Giant's ANTI BEHAVIOURES AARMING Domestic Cloud Infrastructure Market Operates.
The competition and markets Authority's (CMA) Published the Provisional Findings from its Multi-YAR ANTITRUST Investigation into the Inner Workings of the UK's Cloud Infrastructure Market in Late Januaryry. And the cma has now published the responses it has received from AWS, Microsoft, Google and Several Other Market Stakehlets.
As Previously reported by computer weekly, The CMA's provisional findings indicated that it would introduce “targeted interventions” against Against AWS and Microsoft so they are Subject to Controls to Curb Behavior Making the uk cloud services market uncompetitive.
This would involve the CMa Calling on Powers Conferred on it through the roll-out of the digital markets, competition and consucers act 2024 on 1 January 2025 to MARK Aws and Microsoft OUT AS SUPPPLIES WITH “Strategic Market Status”.
This would mean the cMAld impose legally Binding Conduct Requirements or Pro-Competition Interventions on Both Firms to Limit and Remedy the toll their activities have allegedly Hadedly Had
At the time, AWS described the principal of finding its receiving ends Response that states the CMA's provisional findings “Present no credit evidence” to support some of its claims.
Specifically, Aws said there is no interoperability issues or technical barriers preventing cloud users from switching provides, or from making use of multicloud setups, and the cama 'report “Not identified any specific interoperability concerns in response of any acquires services” eite.
“There is no interoperability problem in cloud services, and the provisional decision report presents no evidence to support its Concerns Eiter,” Said Aws, In Its Response.
It also also claimd data transfer fees do not “Hinder switching and multiclouding” and that “again, the pdr [provisional decision report] Presents no credit evidence in supports of its concerns ”.
Aws said it welcome the part of the CM's provisional decision report that ACKNOWLEDGED Competition in the Cloud Services Market Enables “Innovation, Investment and Improved Productivity Among All Customers For the Benefit of People, Businesses and the Uk Economy ”.
However, aws went on to state that report's contents “fails to reflex this reality… by recommending unwarranted intervention applicable to only two players in one of the Most Competitive, Well-Functioning and Functioning and Fast-growing sectors of the uk economy. Its proposed interventions… Risk damaging the Uk Economy's Broader Prospects for Growth, Innovation and Productivity. “
Microsoft was similar scathing in its 101-page response to the CM's provisional findings, and asked it should come as “no surprise with that we disagree with support It needs “Deep Revision”.
This is because, in microsoft's view, The CMA is focusing on Issues that are “Largely Peripheral to Cloud Computing Competition Today”, which include egress feet, interoperability Microsoft's Licensing Tactics,
“It is hard to see how intervention in these three area “There is a real danger that interovening in the market based on [the CMA’s] Misundrstanding will backfire, leave with the opposite of the CMA's Goal of a Healthy, Well-Functioning Market, Rich in Growth and Investment. “
Ingtrist, the google cloud team said it was broadly support of what the cma has initially concluded in its report, and stated the cma's fandings are “further reinforced” Analyst reports and the CM's Profitability Assessments.
“No Credible Evidence in Relation to the structure of the market and the market positions enjoyed by good and microsoft has been put forward that contradicts these provisional findings,“ Said Google.
It added: “The Extensive Data and Evidence Gathered as Part of this CMA Market Investigation and the Preceding ofcom Market Study Provides a clea That AWS and Microsoft Have Strategic Market Status in the Cloud Infrastructure Market. “
This is a sentiment echoed in the response of the prov-call competition lobbying body, the open cloud coalition, who further called for an acceleration in the time taken to confer sms status on botus on both amazon and Microsoft.
“The CMA Should Work to Accelerate The DMU Process and Explore Interims or Clear Guidance to Ensure Public Sector Process Procurement Authorities Activate Consider the Anti-Competitive Software Licensing and Excessive Egress Fees When Awarding Contracts, “said the Occ.
“The CMA cannot impose consuct requires until an sms design is in place, [but] It can take steps to ensure that regulatory intervention is as Swift and effective as possible. Proactive measures are needed to prevent further Entrenchment of Restrictive Licensing Practices while the DMU process is ongoing. “