European Cloud Companies Want EU to Provide More Protection
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European cloud companies want more protection from the EU:
Being a cloud company in 2022 is hard and the task is even harder when you're a European cloud company. All three of the top cloud services - AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud - are American, while the rest are mostly Chinese.
However European cloud companies do have a friend: the European Union. Or so a group of them hope, after writing an open letter, signed by 41 companies, asking for help combating "monopoly software providers" who are "once again using their dominant position to lock in customers, forcing them to use the cloud infrastructure they provide."
The letter is addressed to the EU's Margrethe Vestager, one of the most pro-EU politicians and - helpfully - someone with a track record for being tough on American companies, especially internet and technology firms.
"We have a fast-closing window of opportunity to preserve an autonomous European cloud infrastructure sector," the companies write. "The Digital Markets Act (DMA) could quickly ensure that the European cloud market is free, open and competitive. Unfortunately, the current version of the DMA requires clarification to ensure that its remedies also apply to unfair software practices by gatekeepers with dominant positions in productivity and enterprise software."
[...] The companies might be in luck, too, as the forthcoming DMA specifies that "cloud computing services" would be included under the definition of "core platform service", the framework by which the EU describes which companies fall under the scope of the legislation.
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