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Amazon Web Services and Microsoft held 80 per cent of the UK’s public cloud infrastructure services market last year Britain’s telecoms regulator has referred the £7.5bn UK cloud computing market to the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate the domination of American tech groups Amazon and Microsoft.and Microsoft held a combined 80 per cent share of the UK’s public cloud infrastructure services market last year, Ofcom said. Closest competitor Google had less than 10 per cent.
Sarah Cardell, its chief executive, said: “The CMA will now conduct an independent investigation to decide whether there is an adverse effect on competition and, if so, whether it should take action or recommend others to take action.” Cloud computing enables the delivery of IT services, such as data storage and computing power, over the internet, with a pay-as-you-go pricing structure. It is widely used.Fergal Farragher, of Ofcom, said companies had expressed concerns about the difficulty of switching or mixing and matching cloud providers, as well as the cost and technical barriers.
Amazon disagreed with Ofcom, saying its findings were based on “a fundamental misconception of how the IT sector functions”. A spokesperson said: “Any unwarranted intervention could lead to unintended harm to IT customers and competition.”PoliticsTravel
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