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Exclusive: UK regulator to push for probe into Amazon, Microsoft cloud dominance (www.reuters.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

UK government want to see all your data. Is this just a shot across the bows, because it's comes off incredibly stupid given the context of what a cloud environment provides, i.e. massive amounts of easily accessed very expensive hardware, and there are boutique options out there....

Or maybe they'd like to bring shared computing infrastructure into the hands of the people, nationalised cloud, mmm sounds good!