UK's CMA says AWS, Microsoft can do more to address cloud services barriers
AMZN•The UK's CMA said AWS and Microsoft can do more to address remaining barriers in cloud services, including switching providers and using multiple cloud services. The regulator will keep under review the possibility of a full investigation and said the companies agreed to work on cloud identity management and portability.
1. Cloud barriers remain
The CMA said it would continue working with AWS and Microsoft to address barriers to switching cloud providers and using multiple cloud services. The companies agreed to focus on improving identity and access management across clouds and ensuring cloud architectures designed for portability can be deployed and migrated between providers without barriers. The CMA will keep the possibility of a full investigation into their cloud services under review.
