EU to soon classify AWS and Azure as gatekeepers under DSA

A good target for regulation for those clouds would be the inflated traffic pricing.

Either by a simple price limit on ordinary egress (e.g. max 1 EUR / TB to European providers which don't charge for peering/traffic), or by requiring them to peer at-cost with others and allowing the customers to choose such a peering for egress.

The current traffic pricing is extremely high, and makes it difficult to split your cloud installation between multiple providers.

> The trigger was outages in cloud services with sometimes significant impacts on other internet services. Shortly before, an approximately 15-hour outage of the AWS cloud in the US meant that not only Amazon's own streaming services but also Atlassian, Docker, Epic Games, and the Signal messenger were unavailable or severely restricted.

If I remember correctly, it was a us-east-1 issue specifically. Why is everyone hosted in us-east-1, especially in Europe where stable and reliable regions are available (eu-west-1, eu-west-3, ...)?

How could a cloud provider *not* qualify as a gatekeeper under these guidelines?

It’s a very thin and a political line between being a gatekeeper and a very successful company.

Are we soon going to say Spotify, ASML, and Carl Zeiss are also gatekeepers?