UK regulators could be right about cloud portability obstacles

U.K. communications watchdog group Ofcom reported last week that it was investigating cloud infrastructure vendors — paying particular attention to Amazon and Microsoft — for making it too difficult to move workloads from public clouds. This raised a legitimate question about the obstacles to portability.
The report pointed to three things in particular that Ofcom would investigate: egress fees, the payments these companies charge when customers want to move data from their platforms; general restrictions on interoperability and portability; and discounts they use to keep companies with large

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