CMA must act now to fix Britain’s broken cloud market

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The CMA correctly diagnosed the UK cloud market as broken and dysfunctional, so why isn’t it changing anything, writes Lord Clement-JonesLast summer, after the most detailed investigation of its kind,...

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That decision will come more than two-and-a-half years  after the watchdog first began examining competition concerns in cloud services. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNews Updates\nStay ahead with our three daily briefings delivering all the key market moves, top business and political stories, and incisive analysis straight to your inbox.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor a market that underpins almost every part of the modern economy, that is a long time. AI relies on a good cloud systemCloud computing is not just another technology. It is the foundation on which AI systems run, public services operate and critical infrastructure depends. Finance,  healthcare, defence, retail and transport all rely on cloud platforms. When cloud  markets are highly concentrated and structurally constrained, the consequences  extend far beyond IT departments. The CMA’s final report found that the UK cloud market is highly concentrated, with AWS and Microsoft together jointly enjoying around 70-90 per cent market share. It  identified structural barriers to switching, including interoperability constraints and, in  Microsoft’s case, enterprise software licensing practices that can make it significantly  more expensive to run its ubiquitous software on rival cloud platforms. \n\nThe regulator, not noted for putting contestable numbers into the public domain,  estimated that if cloud prices were on average just five per cent above competitive levels, UK customers could be paying around £500m more each year than they would in a  well-functioning market. That figure alone should give policymakers pause. Regulatory action now ‘urgent’Recent polling conducted by Censuswide on behalf of the Open Cloud Coalition  reinforces those concerns. Among 250 cloud providers surveyed, 82 per cent reported  encountering competitive barriers, including restrictive licensing and contractual  practices. 71 per cent believe regulatory intervention is now urgent. On the customer side,  64 per cent described swift regulatory action as “very important”, and 66 per cent said further  delays would likely result in higher costs and reduced flexibility for their organisations.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.40.0","shortVersion":"4.40.0","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2620207671","isCrawlerRequest":true}