- Introduction – regulating the cloud / global
context
The Competition and Markets Authority, the UK's competition
watchdog, has launched an in-depth investigation into the market
for public cloud infrastructure services in the UK, following
Ofcom's market investigation reference in October.
The investigation will be a long process: the CMA is not due to
publish its final report until early 2025 at which point it will
decide whether, on Ofcom's reference, there are competition
issues in the market and (if so) what the remedies should be.1
But the 'hyperscalers' (the term given to the handful of
giant cloud infrastructure providers who are in the crosshairs
here) are being buffeted by governmental / regulatory / legislative
action like this all over the world.
