Why It's Time To Rethink Your Cloud Strategy
The Register, Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
he decision by the three largest U.S. public cloud providers to waive data transfer fees is a predictable response to the European Data Act's move to eradicate contractual terms that stifle competition.
A quick recap: Google made waves in January when it cut its data transfer fee, the money customers pay to move data from cloud platforms. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft followed suit in March. The particulars of each move vary, forcing customers to read the fine print closely.
Regardless, the moves offer customers another opportunity to rethink where they're running application workloads. This phenomenon, which often involves repatriation to on-premises environments, has gained steam in recent years as IT has become more decentralized.